I would be very careful with that argument because any aesthetic position appeases one group and displeases another. If you had a different taste and this change fit it better, you would likely not be complaining, but instead appreciating it.
Taste and appeal cannot be justified rationally, and as such I don't see how you can possibly take a position of chastisement for their decisions. They aren't the kind of company to just watch their vision burn. The game still feels very much like their aesthetic style (to me, at the very least) when I think back to previous Divinity games.
