[Hey there-- I didn't want to get off topic in the PokeShipping thread, so I thought I'd just VM you what I thought.
I thought 4Kids were surprisingly pretty good as far as Pokemon goes, actually. Their dub definitely had some problems here and there with the donuts, sandwiches, as well as the numerous errors, but overall it was a nice dub: the voice actors and script writers in particular were great and made the series a lot more fun to watch in English to me. Same here, considering they also got rid of some hints: that's really a shame they think that way. Ash's current dub voice makes him sound quite a bit older than he really is at this point, so yeah, I definitely understand and I preferred Veronica Taylor as him as well to say the least-- she had a lot more energy and enthusiasm in her performance as Ash as well, IMO.
Me either: it's stupid and disrespects continuity as well as the bonds the friends had with Ash and company, IMO. One of the biggest mistakes a show can make in my eyes is when it replaces certain characters while selectively choosing to keep certain others around allowing them to grow stale, flanderized, and the like, or just mindless replacing them without a second thought to the contrary: rotating them around is probably the most effective way to go about it, IMO. It's sad to think that Misty and Brock will probably never appear again for the duration of the anime: same goes for May, Max, Dawn, and Tracey (they had a chance to show a cameo from Tracey in BW142, but they chose not to outside of Ash thinking about him lying on the grass-- last time he appeared was with Prof. Oak in BW116 via a TV screen, and he didn't say anything).]