Good call. We've always played it rather Laissez-Faire, keeping to the rules as much as practicable. One think I cannot stand are folks who pay out for hitting Free Parking.
[That's an inflationary mechanism...]
However, if you don't mind games lasting for a week (literally), you can set up Real Estate trusts, sliding financial instruments, etc. Requires bookkeeping, but we let the banker do that.
Sometimes we let the banker play, too, or allow competing banks. Great stuff. Hate to see it change.
The last line of the article says the classic will still be available. I think this is basically just another one of the knockoffs they've been doing for the last 15 years or so. You can get just-about-anything-opoly these days if you're looking hard enough, your city, your state, your favorite sport, your favorite sports team, your favorite vehicle manufacturer... and now your era.
Really I think the strength of Monopoly has always been the house rules. With only 1 page of "real" rules you can tweek Monopoly any way you want to. I never got into the Free Parking payout either, just floods money back into the game to make it take longer.