I prefer hand drawn of course. There are so many possibilities people WILL take advantage of. I mean yes, character designs in the great CGI films vary widely but in hand-drawn you have imagery as varied as Watership Down, Yellow Submarine, The Triplets of Belleville, Akira, Pinocchio and the Asterix the Gaul films. C. S. Lewis did NOT want a live-action adaptation of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe made. He was hoping for animation and that makes sense. Not only were the effects less convincing in those days, but art is a visual language and with designed figures you can have a beautiful counterpart to the moralism which was inherent in his text (and a reason I borrowed them from my church library to read as a kid.
I don't think hand-drawn ever went away. Of course they use CGI even in anime these days, and I will certainly admit that the big studios prefer CGI because they are making corporate product and want to show us it is corporate product. But there are still many hand-drawn shorts being made around the world and I think a lot of exciting work is being done in it.