For the longest time I only wanted to play the best port of a game.
However this can lead you down a long path of not playing anything.
These days there is always a definitive port being released however sometimes being better in some ways doesn't mean the experience is what was intended.
In my mindset these days I am thinking of the days when one could only afford one console.
So that would be Mega Drive or Super Nintendo not both
Playstation or Sega Saturn not both.
In this case you would simply have to play the port of the game you could buy.
Sega Saturn has better ports of The King of Fighters 95 and Street Fighter Alpha 2 but the PS1 ports are not bad.
The latest one for me is Wii vs Switch I didn't play through all the Wii U games I had bought and I was ready to jump on the Switch and rebuy them but I decided not to as they are still essentially the same games
I think there's no reason to upgrade to a better port for minor changes unless you absolutely love that game.
The other reason to play an so called inferior port would be because that's how you remember the game and you don't like the changes made.
I still prefer to play Super Mario Bros on the NES when I think of which one to play even though when Super Mario Allstars came out it totally beat the NES version in every way.
I also like when software pushes a certain platform for example the way the uncharted series pushed the PS3 the fact the PS4 version is better in every way kind of dimishes the achievement that Uncharted was on the PS3.
Switch comes to mind @ Inferior ports and similarly the gameboy came to mind it was my portable console of choice so I wanted to be able to play the same games on the handheld as I did on the SNES.
Zelda a Links awakening was a Gameboy title and I love it to this day but I considered the Snes game a Link to the past my favourite because of its graphics and sound.
I still consider the Gameboy version to be the way I would revisit the game and the Switch version more of a curio not the way I would want to always play the game.
So to sum it up I love inferior ports