nice topic!!!
I was asleep (into lego) for many years..., in fact, since the lego stopped the pirates topic
with the new ones, as everyone, I found several diferences, but all aren't goods and bads things
For example, I do not like the new minifigs have pupils in his eyes, besides, some of them show their teeth ... (That's why I think it gives the feeling of cartoons)
I like the detail painting on the back, but I hate that new Redcoats do not have a backpack, not only painting of what appears to be a bag
I like female minifig (the pirates are not just plastic), all his clothes and new hair styles ... That completes the human essence in Lego
I like the Red Plume and Gold Emblem Pattern of the the new Shako, but I miss the Admiral Pattern from the Pirate Bicorne, and I prefer thousand times the round skull of Roger than the new alien skull from Brickbeard
may be this clash is because the old ones now are classic... and the new one are trying to get a space... and welcome aboard!!!, but, for and older like me, who grew playing with roger, isn't easy to mix old with new and not have a favorite!