A cleansing juxtaposition, indeed.
The webcomic, awkward zombie has a good strip where the ssb roster jokes that link will never be updated, and then his new form comes and eats him, or his old form subsumes the new(?), And this line up reminded me a bit of that.
I personally like to think nintendo, and Miyamoto, have over the years always had an idea what the 8-bit is meant to be, and the progression of technology is like a whittling knife and the pressures of customers and the markets and artistic rendering have slowly allowed a fine more steady refinement of the characters we know and love.
It's not quite new, not quite old, but a living nostalgia.
Thank you for making this.