Maybe I'm not fanatical enough here but...
My issue (one of two) is less with the "I paid heaps and now a similar toy is available at usual retail price so I'm ticked off" - which is understandable enough - than with the way it's somehow only those who have the time and money to go to the conventions and/or splurge $300 on what is, when you get right down to it, just a toy, who seem to qualify as 'fans'. Like many of us here I would love to get my hands on the Botcon 07 set but it's not worth the outlay when there are things like food and rent etc that need paying - I'm quite happy with PCC Huffer over BotCon Huffer for the Odieverse.
For every fan who forked out several hundred dollars per seeker there are many many more who missed out entirely, and when you get right down to it Hasbro/TakTom are toy companies - they want to sell as many toys to as many customers as possible. Doing these repaints/remolds now is part of how HasTakTom gets the funds to make new TFs in the future - it's basically a net win aside from scalpers people who bought them up with the intent to sell them on later at inflated prices. The 'true fans' who just had to finish their Classics collection still have their exclusive seekers and have had them for several years over the rest of us, while now the rest of us have the chance to get more generic ones. Myself, aside from Starscream I'm just gonna go with whatever loose G1/reissue seekers I end up finding for my collection, but I do hope they do a mass-release TC and Dirge so those fans who want a full set of Classic/Universe seekers can get them and maybe we can all get some more new-mold Classics/Universe/Generation/whatever toys to boot.
Also, they're just toys!!! How can grown rational adults get so fired up over this stuff - it really is just like all those little kids locking themselves in their bedrooms for days or weeks on end because Optimus Prime died, except that we're supposed to be grown-ups now. I like collecting TFs sure, but it's just a hobby and the way select portions of the fandom seem to treat it like it's life-or-death important gets to me sometimes.
And yeah, I get the irony of my getting frustrated at other people getting frustrated over this kind of thing, but really...can we all grow up and get some perspective here? Optimus Prime dies, sure, but he is just a cartoon character...