Nobody's taking anything away if you want to watch the original form.
Besides, how many movies in the last 50 years are made in B+W, use title cards, have a soundtrack of someone plinking on a pipe organ, are fuzzy and grainy, etc?
Most people won't even watch a B+W movie, let alone a silent one.
P.S. Reddit has a subreddit for colorized photos. There is some amazing work done there. It really makes the photos more interesting. My wallpaper is showing one right now.
1. reading dialog cards, especially since I can lip read a bit and that's not what the characters are saying
2. the truly awful "period" music added
3. the grainy black and white
I've seen some work on the 1929 film "Wings" that was done in high def, sound effects were added, and some small colorization of scenes.
I'd like to take that further:
1. remove graininess and fuzziness with AI, and of course all scratches, etc.
2. add foley sound effects
3. replace dialog cards with dubbed dialog, lip read if possible
4. add a decent music sound track (Like what was done with "Metropolis")
5. colorize it!
These are all very doable today, as I've seen each done in a small way.
Why should we suffer all the limitations of silent movies? I just want to enjoy it, not suffer.