I watched s4 original, then the remix, and am going through the original again now with my wife. I feel much like the original seasons, history has vindicated it and a lot of the hate was because it was ahead of its time. It's a very different show than the original run, but a decade later I'm finding half the running gags I reference are from s4.

What did you think was the biggest joke that the edit botched? For me it was the setup where you first see George Michael having his house party, and assume it's some cool Silicon Valley style party full of tech bros. Then you see in a later episode that Sudden Valley has become a haven for pedophiles who were all smitten by George Michael. The payoff was amazing but needed the overlapping long-timelines of the original.