It's kinda funny - I played a lot of moria on the Amiga - which had a very nice tile set. Then I spent long, dark hours in angband on Linux, with no tiles (there are and was tiled variants for Linux - I just played the text tiled ones).

Then I tried looking for other rougelikes, and found stone soup... And I find it a bit... Meh.

There's added features/"improved" ux - but I'd prefer to just play moria without tiles.

Might be similar to multi-player angband - a great idea on paper, but it involved a clock/tick - and suddenly the game was completely different, and IMNHO no longer fun.