Steve, Gary,
I think that's the idea.!
. The point being, how much more detail is there in the new one. But for pure asthetics it's kinda like the valve arguement for audio.
People like the valve sound cause it is softer and easier on the ear, but it's not actually a "true" acurate representation of the recording. I digress!..
Similary with a softer image, while it might look more pleasant to the eye, that is at the sacrifice of detail. The fact here is that I was stunned at how much extra detail this unshape process extracted. And whats more, for such little effort. I proably over did it for sake of the point, but there you go. Astheticially I'm not sure which one I prefer
Cheers