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Alas, that magic is gone forever. I blame the gray text and the relentless passage of time.

No, the problem with the gray text was simply that it sometimes significantly slowed down the game when making various key decisions, nothing more. On the other hand, many moments were quite fun to discuss, remember Shabed, for example. (I'm using him as an example because he wasn't in the first expansions.)
So, here it's just time, as with any other good game; nostalgia remains and makes us close our eyes to obvious shortcomings, but that very atmosphere cannot be recreated.