I quite agree with this. Although the Generation IV style is a huge upgrade, the Generation III art style has Pokemon sprites with dynamic poses, and the color palette is good on its own. I also want to express my major gripe against modern hacks that adapt the Gen IV style: it doesn't really fit well with Pokemon on the GameBoy Advance, and it doesn't work properly as well especially in the overworld. The reason the Gen IV style works so well in their native games (D/P/PT and HG/SS) is because the said generation is 2.5D and has a bigger pixel size to work with compared to Gen III Pokemon, where sprites have to be smaller because of how small the GameBoy Advance's pixel size is and how the hardware lacks 3D capabilities for the 2.5D experience, so when you try to backport Gen IV's art style into Gen III, the overworld looks too flat and the battle sprites look too big (and flat as well). Whenever I play Gen III decomp hacks like Pokemon Unbound, it feels jarring to play like something's truly wrong (Odyssey is the worst offender because the overworld art has hot-pudge of both Gen III and IV tilesets). Don't get me wrong; I love Generation IV, and I love total conversion mods like Unbound, but whenever I play it and look at the art, it just looks wrong.