I like it. Am I doing something bad by enjoying it?

You're not doing anything bad by disliking it either, unless you're actually trying to tell me I'm wrong for enjoying something.

Imagine drawing a character with their defining features stripped away, completely unnecessarily and not as part of a "what if" of sorts, and expecting fans to react positively. Imagine cyberpunk Sumo E. Honda weighs like 140 lbs because the future cured weightloss or some shit. Chun Li does not skip leg day. That's not Chun Li.

I have absolutely no problem with artists doing whatever they enjoy. Why do you?

Does this rendition damage the original in some way? Because it doesn't. If you take offence here, that 100% a you problem. This does not have to impact your enjoyment of the "real" thing, at all. You are merely letting it.

There is no such thing as a charachter trait too intrinsic to change.