Don't you love how some spots on Neopets still have old neopet designs being used? For example, the Scorchio Brian in Gormball is the old Scorchio colored in with the gradient tool. I also noticed in the spots where you can see the different types of pets you can get with paintbrushes when you're exploring in say the Haunted Woods show the old version of the pets before conversion. Makes me sad and nostalgic because a lot of pets looked better before conversion.
Yeah, I would have to agree, 99% of pets that were converted look aweful and way worse than they did before, and the other 1% looks ok, but still worse than before. Conversion was the beginning of the end for my interest towards playing Neopets, hence why I cheat to get nps now
For me it has nothing to do with how it looks, rather the attachment to it. If you showed anyone who didn't know anything about neopets the old version and the new version, 99% of the time they would pick the new version. However, for me, it's the fact that it was the original and it was the one I was used to being around. I don't care how bad it looks.