Puppet master Li Tien-lu notes that modern budaixi grew out of traditional budaixi, just as its innovations will be tomorrow's traditions. Just as budaixi snifted from nanguan music to beiguan in the past, so high-tech budaixi is moving to ward science fiction. This is a question of progressive stages and different approaches, and there is no conflict amongst them.
布袋戲藝師李天祿表示，沒有傳統布袋戲哪來金光布袋戲，過去的創新就是今天的傳統，就如布袋戲由南管改為北管，由金光走向電視科幻，這都是階段性的，互相並不衝突。