Different strokes for different folks, but I find this to be the most charmless and humorless portrayal ever. So far, I’ve never had the inclination to watch the Craig films more than one time. I think the producers erred gravely in not casting Clive Owen.
As you correctly said, different strokes for different folks. I personally believe that the selection of Daniel Craig was the best decision done in a very long time when it comes to the Bond franchise. At first it did not make sense to many people, but he has not only had immensely high box office takes (Skyfall alone was over US$1 billion) but also revived a brand that after Pierce's run was felt to have run its course (not because of anything wrong Pierce did, although by the rolling of credits of Die Another Day it did seem shaky).
Daniel Craig has been a major boon for the Bond franchise, and the numbers support that significantly.
As for Clive Owen - his name ran prominently at the time the producers were thinking about who would replace Pierce, however I think it would have been a mistake to cast him (and that the producers did a good thing opting for another lead). His action movies (e.g. The International, Killer Elite and Shoot 'em Up) clearly show why he wouldn't have made a great (or for that matter, a good) Bond. While Bond movies are not necessarily famous for their acting, Clive Owen is simply wooden in all his portrayals. Either too serious, or too stiff, or too serious and stiff. Whether it is in movies that ask for physicality and brutality (his role as an assassin in the first Bourne movie, where his hand to hand skills were staccato), or where the scene called for intelligent investigative acumen (opposite Denzel in The Inside Man), or in a James Bondish role in The International, all of them are woody.
He would have been a George Lazenby, or better yet, a Timothy Dalton. An actor who comes close to the character that Ian Fleming may have had for Bond (particularly Dalton), but one that most movie goers would have bought into (both in terms of accepting the character, and paying their hard earned cash to watch).
Anyway, too long a post for actors and movies, and as mentioned it is just one person's opinion, but I do believe that Craig was a better choice than Owen. Even though if one resurrected Ian Fleming, the man would probably see Clive Owen as closer to his idea of what Bond was (in the same way Dalton and Lazenby were close to the portrayal of the character in the original books ...a flawed man, who is a bit of an 'everyman,' is not charming, has real alcohol issues, and the only flair he has is a love of good watches, good wines, and drives a Bentley ...Aston came later). But for movie goers ...Craig is a billion Dollar draw.