I'm having a really hard time vibing with neo-traditionalist architecture discourse. Like, I like beauty, but I just find the thing on the left much more beautiful than the thing on the right.

(left image mine, right from @Western_Trad on twitter)

Am I... missing something? https://i.imgur.com/Cqm1D2g.jpg

Also I think the style on the left is better in one important subtle way: it's more robust to dissent. The left with one building from the right looks much nicer than the right with one building from the left.

So it's a style more compatible with architectural freedom.

It's the wrong scale. 
Comparison between right and left in historical dimensions and proportions.
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Totally agree, we can learn and rely  from their mistakes.
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Oh I agree the right is impressive given when it was built, but that's true in the same way it's true that Kepler's laws are impressive.

Doesn't mean that we should rely on Kepler to plan our Mars missions, or on multi-century-old architecture styles to build our cities.

I don’t think that this is the only scale that is wrong. The right at much closer distances is orders of magnitude more beautiful that the left imo