No one liked new coke. New Pepsi was even worse, but Pepsi missed the boat on that one, they didn't do the old switcheroo like coke did.

Then the "regular" flavors came back and everyone went on with their lives.

Basically they didn’t care about the sweetener switch. They were just happy to get the old recipe back. Can confirm l am an old guy that hated new Coke when it came out.

Sugar is a number one addiction, so as long as it was sweet probably they kept drinking it.

Mexican Coke still uses sugar instead of fucktose

It went from being clean crisp Coke to being Pepsi in a coke bottle.