Is SHIII + GWX What Stock SHIII Should Have Been in the First Place?

[Iron Budokan]

I'm not knocking stock SHIII at all. I think it was a fastastic sim when it came out and still do. It has set the bar for any and all subsequent subsims and yeah, like it or not, SHIV is going to have to meet or exceed that expectation. That's reality both in a gaming sense and a business sense.

But the original game had problems (both buggy and otherwise) which all of us know about and which has been thoroughly documented. It appears GWX addressed a lot of these concerns. But now with GWX do we finally have the game SHIII should have been when released in the first place?

And now that we have GWX, does the mod lessen the historical impact SHIII had when it first appeared on the shelves?

I'm curious to know what you guys think.