And where's the fun if you're not using your feet? :/
Honestly, I feel like the arcade versions of the games are the most ideal ones, especially DDR Extreme. That has, in my opinion, the best setlist in the entire series.
Speaking of being as good as before, let's compare skills right now, shall we? Using the older scale of 10, where can all of you comfortably put yourself? For example, I'm almost about to reach 7-steps comfortably, though I can clear the following song from time to time, which is a 9-step.
I used to play some DDR but I grew bored pretty quickly, DDR has a serious lack of good songs with fun steps, and overall I'd say it's way too easy. Going, as Art did by the 10-grade system I could do most 7-9 steps with fairly good scores. No triple A's perhaps, but good enough.