When Adam and Donna owned the site....
I gotta agree with you there...things were more..."real fun" and less "television-fake-fun".
I miss having the drive to make NPs so I could paint my pets cool colours like plushie and grey. Nowadays all neopets have the same freaking pose for everything and that lost it for me. Plushies actually used to look like real plushies, and greys actually had dejected poses.
I think the plushie poses are what I miss most paint brush wise!! I was soooo stoked that I could finally get the pb but they'd changed the poses and bleh.
As for me, I miss not having to deal with ads. I know, I know, "ad-blocker, duh possum" but seriously, I wish I didn't even have to bother with it.
Also, beer for neopets.