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>but still didn't have that totally flat super vibrant look that every new anime has today
Also digital anime in the 2000s was natively lower resolution, so the blurriness tends to make it look less flat compared to modern digital anime especially when upscaled to higher resolutions.

And 2000s digital anime still mostly made for CRT TV displays, so colouring was generally tweaked and effected with CRT TVs in mind much like the cel era. Modern anime is excessively brighter for the same reason blueray remasters of cel anime and 2000s digital anime are brighter than the TV broadcasts or VHS/DVD releases.

If you look at the original, raw cels of cel anime, it's actually brighter than what was broadcasted on television.