OK, after reading through all of this, I couldn't help but put my two cents in, whether they'll be heeded or not. It's true that we 3.0 fans will almost certainly never get the transcendent Gins, 40 minute Tweezers, and hour long Jims of the 90s. We'll never see another Hotdog gag, or Trey's golden pants. But ya know what else we'll (hopefully) never see?
That ill-fated Vegas show (date is slipping my mind, but you know the one I mean.)
OxyTrey.
Coventry.
And that's a trade I'm willing to make, especially if we're still getting moments like this DwD and Carini, or 12/28's Wolfman's, or the Fee from the Riverbend '11 show. And the boys are clearly still having fun up there (a la one of the punniest New Year's gags of which I'm aware, or the banter at the AC run, or the smiles on their faces when they're hosing us down good and proper.)
So I guess what I'm trying to say is, take the good with the bad, cherish the past, but above all: QUIT. YOUR. BITCHING.