an icepick through the keyhole

I'm not bored, but I am still a bit mystified. The thing is that what you seem to be talking about is something that pretty much accompanies any regeneration. The only way I can make sense of it is that you're talking about the general change of the show to be slicker, more modern, more than a shoestring budget. Or you're seeing a change in the fundamental character of the Doctor (which I'm not seeing, frankly). Which then starts to go a bit deeper.

Because otherwise, you're just reacting to the way a character walks and talks, and that's changed every three to five years on average with the Doctor. And that's really no different from that child that watched Hartnell change into Troughton in 1966 and then insist that, no, that's not his Doctor.

I've watched every piece of surviving footage from the old series. My favourite Doctor is Sylvester McCoy, my favourite era is UNIT, I still adore Genesis of the Daleks, and really, to say that just because I do like the new series is because I don't remember the old series or never really liked it or was ashamed of its rickety nature is more than a little patronizing and just as offensive as if I told you that you have no right to your opinion. Because you're ascribing motives to me that just aren't true.

But, for the moment taking what you're saying in your post at face value, I do think you're wrong. Not that you're not entitled to your point of view, but I think you're looking at it through a blinkered sort of lens. And especially so as the bitterness seems to extend to the very audience itself, which while I understand that to a degree, I think ascribing those motives that you do to it is unfair and also inaccurate.

And at the end of the day I am still none the wiser as to the characteristics of what kind of show would satisfy you.

ETA: I'm not calling it superficial, because you don't strike me as that kind of person. Which also explains some of the mystification because I'm thinking, no, that can't be just it.