Everyone has a view of this story.
To me there are games that got over the initial fantasy much better AND became accepted with code and SM and TWD are the biggest in my view and there are games that got better because people got over their wet dream and LOTR, POTC, IM, and TRON are are few. I know people can argue updates but I think people played them and didn't look at the BOM to decide.
There are also games like WPT (hardware) and XMEN that are so much better than when released but people are not over their fantasy disappointment. Transformers is here.
There are games like Avatar and SW that like IM disappointed on playfield stuff that we will see about in the future.