People must be absolutely kidding themselves with this 'Still the best in the country' line. As someone who has spent a lot of time in football stadiums of late through work, it absolutely is not. Bits of it are on a par with the Emirates or Wembley, but as a whole it's woefully behind them, and needs serious cash spending on it just to keep up. I'd prefer us to do what we used to and try to be better than the rest, but we're nowhere near.
Also, I don't buy this 'soulless' stuff at all. If a building has soul, it's provided by the people in it, not by the architecture, and there's nothing particularly interesting about the current architecture of OT, the oldest bits are about 50 years old and the majority round 25 years old. All the interesting old bits were torn down decades ago, and replaced with what I'm sure many would have described as 'soulless' back in 1995.