So what's with Mirage purists?

[neatoman]

So lately we have had a certain Mirage purist around here complaining about two design elements that were in not in Mirage but rather added for adaptations, one being being highly recognisable to the point where it will never go away, the other so comparably subtle hardly anyone brings it up and both are intended to fix something that was kind of broken about the Mirage designs. Instead of listening to these points the Mirage purist instead decided to prove that he has the reasoning skills of a donkey.

Which makes me wonder a bit, what's really with the Mirage purists? If they can't accept change in a constantly changing media franchise, not even comparatively minor alterations, then what's really the point of still being a fan? Once Peter Laird finishes the comic (if he does so at all) then that's probably the end of Mirage's TMNT output and the only TMNT material afterwards will most certainly contain many of these differences from the Mirage stories.