What are you saying? I don't think there ever was anyone objecting to making Vladek cool? :P
And your witty responses to this comment aside, yeah I'd have preferred a better name, but I haven't figured one out, yet, so if there are any suggestions (hint hint James), I'll welcome them.
Now as Talmid has said I didn't forsee this outcome either. It's not something I intended to happen, but it's something I understand and so I won't discourage it. The one thing I'll say is that it'd be preferrable that should a story be revised its changes remain self-contained within that story. That way we don't need to worry about how the revision would affect other stories. If that's impossible, then I guess bringing it to discussion beforehand could be helpful.