Here: What are your unpopular opinions in pokemon?
Nostalgia isn’t about re-creating your past experience 1:1. Most people growing also only had heavy played cards and mostly commons. Am I not doing it right unless I have a dirty sticker ridden 3 ring binder with a bunch of played commons?
It’s about recapturing the vibe. Any base set card does that. But as an adult you can now buy the cards you would have wanted as a child, in really good condition.