Mixing/creating styles

Just pondering a question I thought would be an interesting discussion potentially :-)



What are peoples personal thoughts on schools that are advertised out there as a mixture of however many different styles and called something totally new and being taught there by the 'founder' etc?



I personally am not a fan, I think people can always study as many martial arts as they like and encourage the same, but I just don't a point in taking drinks and drabs of 'whatever' and making something and passing it off your own creation... I've always preferred that if something is offered as 'the modern version' or similar that straight away pits me off as whatever that person has liked and taken, may not be the same as I would like it, I have always in theory thought I would much rather find the earliest and most traditional fo possible so that I would not be missing out on vital parts of a martial art that someone else had decided they didn't like and had 'cut out'...



Anyway that's just my view and interested in seeing what other people think and where they stand :-)))