Well, what’s nice about it is that the old versions aren’t going anywhere. If you prefer the old one, great! You can listen to the old one. And if these new ones get played on the radio more due to them being new, well she gets that money now rather than some guy who didn’t write the song just because he had money when she needed it.
Personally, I prefer the old versions, especially for her older songs. I think she wasn’t quite yet so jaded, and she believed in the love fantasies she was singing about. I’m specifically think of the song Love Story. She doesn’t sound as excited in the rerecording of that one, and I can obviously only speculate that it is because she just doesn’t believe in that fantasy anymore due to all of her life experiences.
I’m very curious to hear the rerecording Ours, because you can actually hear her smiling in some lines with the way she pronounces the words in the original. I’m skeptical that she can recapture the magic of what I consider one of her best performances from her early career.