Rebirth is like a recap film with new footage. It's more a side-piece to the main series than replacing it. And the Rebuilds are extremely post-modern retelling of the main theme (I'd say worse at it) while adding new stuff that reflects Anno's new mental states as he went from stressed out animator in the '90s to over-successful uber-otaku producer/director of the 2000s/2010s.

I prefer EoE just because it's one of the bleakest, saddest depictions in animation of what it personally feels like when everything around you is literally or ideologically falling apart. But again, it's all very post-modern so it basically sits aside the main TV series rather than being something that objectively overwrites it.