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I do remember thinking that the mix was too loud, there were too many horns, and the new "music" ran longer than the Rugolo and the stock cues. Sometimes it bullied its way in and just stayed there, when there'd been no music originally in that spot. Way too heavy handed.
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This is precisely what drives me nuts as much as Rugolo's cues being replaced. Whether for film or tv, music scoring over the last decade or so has been performed in a rather insulting and pompous manner in order to inform the viewer when to feel sad, happy, terrified, etc.
Let's face it, subtlety is a lost art. Watching a tv drama that was scored by the likes of Pete Rugolo, Fred Steiner, Dominic Frontiere, Morton Stevens and others, one is struck by how well they "spotted" the drama, that is to say, having the foresight to know when a scene would benefit from music and when it would benefit from none at all. But then, back in the day we realized that 'less is more'. No longer.