Have been gaming since the mid 80's and text adventures were a main feature. Years later and I owned Lost Treasures 1 and 2 then the Masterpieces CD. I topped that with IUB.zip - pretty much everything Infocom.
Jason Scott then produced Get Lamp - I have a coin - which brought so much of that era together.
I view text adventures, be they Infocom, Level 9 or others, as an inspiration to others. A re-release could only be a good thing.