It's still good today, and although on the Reserve List, it's just $2.49 over at coolstuffinc.com right now (Hint, hint)
Not all the best Pokmon cards have monstrous HP stats, but having lots of hit points definitely makes a card better
unless you want the old-school visuals and wording, in many cases later reprints are less expensive
Instead, rarity served as a soft cap, allowing players to accumulate far more commons than rares, while preserving the design intent of the set
As far as searching for cards goes, Ive noticed that you are no longer shown every single card that has the searched sequence of letters somewhere in its name, which has been both a positive and a negative