So, anyway, if you like a server's settings as they are, you should try to get the server admin to give them to you. It may be that they will update later to a version you don't like, and then it may also be time for you to part ways with the server and run your own.

Also, in my experience, a lot of good servers have come out of situations like this, where a previous server admin made an update that some player didn't like, so he started his server as a clone of the old one. No harm no foul, we can't eat people every day or it would get boring, sometimes you have to eat something else.