Since there's been some recent news regarding them, there's something I just don't 'get' about all these live-action Disney remakes: why do they always change shit that worked just fine in the original (and often ends up being worse in the remake)?

If you go through the full catalog of Disney remakes, aside from alterations due to going from 2D to live action, there's this frankly bizarre pattern of the writers or directors or producers or whatever deviating from aspects that worked in the original just fine, or adding in random new shit, for what feels like just for the hell of it. The scale and scope of these changes varies from remake to remake.

Lion King Remake: remove all personality from Scar and Shenzi and make them brooding edgelords.

Pinocchio Remake: add in a subplot involving a disabled romani (I think) girl who's part of a circus that Pinocchio is tempted to join; also, Pinocchio doesn't turn from a puppet into a real boy at the end, because he's fine just the way he is.

Beauty and the Beast Remake: make the Beast more of a dick to Belle, give Gaston PTSD (I think that's what they were going for with him), and add an unnecessary "ticking clock" of all the mansion people turning into inanimate objects when all the petals on the flower fall off.

Lilo and Stitch Remake: remove the sympathetic angle from Bubbles the social worker and make him hunt down Stitch for the...FBI...or someone.

And those're just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. I just can't wrap my head around the logic behind this trend throughout the remakes.