Humans always gravitate to the familiar.
Oddly, I have never pined for the ol’ jam-master M-16A1...the stuff of nightmares.
Either your age is showing ( M16/M16A1 in Vietnam circa 1967), or you just read selectively.
The M16 platform is most reliable and useful. A youtube search will show you how they perform against a plethora of new AKs , Galils, M14s SKS etc in harsh conditions.
But, anyway.
Yeh, raise your hand if you’d call the cops after you realized somebody stole your Beretta and left a new Sig P320 in its place. 😆
The new M4, and AR-15s derived from it, are a different breed. They don’t jam like the old ones. But, I should stop wasting keystrokes on this.