You are being very overdramatic about this. There are barely any changes to begin with, a few QoL improvements and that’s it. Everything else is fundamentally the same.
It was much more drastic going from v1.0 to really any other version past that point so if you didn’t like any of the patches after 1.0 came out then I might understand. However, if you’re referring to 1.13/1.14 then it’s already a hugely different game than D2 original.
I love D2 classic, LoD launch and even the patches afterwards as well, going to even coming back a couple of years ago and played PlugY. There are many ways to love the game.