They certainly look a good deal more human.
Our daughter woujldn't have 'em - she was much happier with Action Man provided she was allowed to add realistic scars with a hot skewer.

I don't know about the US, but in the UK for many years parents were advised to use cat-nets to stop cats getting into cots with babies "in case they smothered them".
This despite there being not a single case of cats smothering babies in the whole of Europe for the preceeding 100 years.
Which of course, just shows how well the nets work.

As someone who often works in old buildings, I get fed up with the "It's a lovely old building" argument. Often they're damp, hard to heat, expensive to bring back to anythjing like respectable condition and unsuited to modern uses. There's a derelict farmhouse at the end of our road which has been empty for over twenty years. Can't do anything with it 'cos it's "listed". It's also a "lovely old building" but not one you can feasibly use for anything.
What it needs is a good fire.
That said, there are of course some old buildings that are worth keeping either on their own merits or for reasons of historical association - but they're few and far between.