I'd still love to put this one to a debate 😂 I do love the charm of the older Godzilla movies and can have plenty of fun watching them, but there's a bit of a Child's Play element to them. I feel about the various Godzilla movies a bit like I do about the Chuckie iterations.
With the CGI I really feel as though it's just impossible to know what sort of difference it might have made in those movies! If the only The Empire Strikes Back that people ever got to know was one that had a terrific team of CGI workers behind it, it's hard to know how we'd feel about it. As far as the Godzillas go, it's a little hard for me to build the case that a man in a costume would be the better man for the job. But I'd be very curious to see it attempted today!