TNK suddenly launched a missive which claims, as far as I can discern, that separating "old school" anime from the "new school" anime is fallacious.

Let’s place Urusei Yatsura next to Love Hina. [...] Both share humongous similarities on a basic level of formula. They tell different stories, with different goals, but they are cut from the same cloth. Why would one be regarded as newschool and the other oldschool? Probably only because of how they look. If you updated Urusei Yatsura to have modern animation, it’d probably be taken as a new product.

Well, no, they wouldn't. Here's an old quote:

Several other themes are present as well. For example, Ranma essentially collects what is known now as harem, although in his/her case it's a mix of sexes. Also, there's a lot of fighting, at first simply super-powerful, and later outright magical (due to power inflation).

Overall, it seems as if both Ms. Takahashi and anime creators did not know the basic designs of anime as recognized today [Emphasis mine — Author]. They played chess without knowing standard debutes. So, they touched upon many things which could be interesting, then failed to develop them.

Not only the production technique has changed. Anime storytelling itself has advanced in sophistication tremendously over the recent decades.

Of course, we can find how same things reoccured. Perhaps remaking Urusei Yatsura would make it look more modern. This is why we have remakes at all (Uguu~). To state the point better, Mark really should've mentioned Gurren-Lagann as the modern icon of hot-blooded hero. But listing these instances does not prove that new is the same old.

This reminds me how the founder of Solara Genomics delivered a saliva-spitting... er, passionate performance on topic of "there is no race gene". He did actually say something to the tune of, "from the point of view of genetics, race does not exist." But of course! There's no single gene of race, there's only a collection of them.

The analogy is not very complete, because while "oldschool" and "newschool" are separated by time, races are only separated by distance. Thus, with the improvements in transportation technology, we may all turn uniformly brown eventually, but "oldschool" will never merge with "newschool". I am just trying to illustrate how it is unproductive to deny the reality and engage into excessive deconstruction.