Yeah, I still remember how anyone got upset over the button scoring and said 10-point pro scoring will be better. Fast forward 15 years and people are fed up with that and want another change aka the button system wasn't that bad after all
Here's an old LA Times article from 1996 rasing some of the old (then new) concerns. The button system was first used in Barcelona 1992 as a direct response of the 1988 boxing fiasco.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-07-14-ss-25890-story.html
Overall, the more things change, the more they stay the same