I miss the days of animatronics, puppets/muppets, and stop-motion animation. Thankfully, The Aquabats! also feel the same way. There isn't a whole lot of "state of the art CGI" trickery in any given episode of The Aquabats! Super Show!. It's all puppets and 80s CGI. (Transparency effects for ghosts and such.) And it's all very retro, but also believable. Kind of campy, too, but that was the intention.
Now compare that to any given Hollywood blockbuster movie. Hulk is a good example. Specifically, the scene where he picks up a tank by the turret and throws it into the mountains. Everyone knows that was fake, but apparently, a lot of people can't see how or why it's fake. I tend to notice things like this and can easily tell the difference between CGI and creative prop and set design. And when CGI inundates a live-action movie while trying to look completely realistic, well... That's a bit of a turn-off for me. Sure, it was fun to, for another example, watch Yoda demolish Darth Sidious like some kind of freaky Jedi frog in Star Wars, Episode II (and then later bust a move with random Clone Troopers), but I honestly prefer the muppet Yoda over a fully CGI Yoda.