The 1997 version sounds like they chucked compression and smiley-face EQs on everything. The Dweezil version sounds more honest, somehow.
It reminds me of the handful of prog albums (mostly Gentle Giant) I own that Steve Wilson remixed and remastered. They are the old albums, but on a good day! Still plenty of dynamics and headroom, but instrument separation is better and the overall balance of the instruments is better.
The worst remix/remastering I've heard is the version of Obscured by Clouds slung into the Pink Floyd 'Early Years' box set. I like the original album as it is a bit of grace under pressure; recorded quickly as a soundtrack to a weird art house movie. It is somewhere between archaic space rock Floyd and a tough first draft of Dark Side. For the remix, David Gilmour added way to much of that slushy, modulated and compressed latter-day Floyd sound. Too glossy, too warm and bloated in the mids. They also did something ugly to the soundtrack to Live at Pompeii in the same box set. It is like they discovered Spatial Audio plugins like Izotope and set them all to 100%, matched with a brittle EQ that causes ear fatigue. All to try and 'rectify' something recorded on a mobile recording setup in 1971 using grimy European electricity, spliced cables, ground hums and crackles.