I am learning stuff from you guys but when I first learnt changquan forms (back in early 1980's) I realized that they were 'reformatted but as I began to do competition, many of these forms were made longer by adding/incorporating/appending additional forms to meet the competition criteria.
This re-formulation was usually done by some teachers who were good at this and they had the fortune of studying with some of the old teachers.

Good or bad, I have stayed with the 2 forms I remember but I see little difference in the organization of the form. What I would like to see more is a functional display of what they can do instead of just repeating the form just to repeat and be unaware of its utility. That is my main problem and concern