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I have a similar dilemma - it very much depends on your POV regarding 'classic' SW sets. I like the older sets, but when I see the detail on more recent, more complex sets the old ones sometimes look a little... lacklustre.
Now, #10179 is definitely NOT lacklustre, but when compared side by side with the new one it does have some detail or structural issues that have been resolved more pleasingly in #75192
That being said, 10179 is the original and the most rare set. That can mean a lot to some people.
Work out which is more important to you and what value you place on that importance and you have your answer.
FWIW, for me, I'm happy with the old one, but only because it's the one I own and quite honestly I don't have the time or the money to contemplate changing it...
I think most people will find it tough to get more than £1500/$2000 for a sealed #10179 while the 75192 is available at RRP, once stock shortages from the initial rush are sorted.
Had I owned the 10179... the moment I would have heard about the new release of 75192 as actually coming out into production, I would have sold the 10179 as fast as I could.
I've been collecting since before most of you were born... (57 years)... and I've seen this happen before. A very rare and in demand set being reintroduced by TLG... there are 2 examples that come to mind.... the rare 398 USS Constellation set of 1978... which was reintroduced in 2003 as LEGENDS set 10021. The 398 was selling for over $1000 (in 1990s dollars)... and when they re-released it years later... not only did the 398 drop in price (gradually but surely) from over $400 of a used set down to about $150 today... but the 10021 can still be had in sealed condition for $225 today.
Another set that dropped like a lead balloon was the 6390 Main Street set of 1980, which was a USA only set, but also re-released in 2003 as a LEGENDS set 10041. This was also a very much in demand set back in the late 1990s... when I first got onto RecToysLego and LUGNET (the first online LEGO sites)... Today you can get a sealed 10041 for as little as $180, and the 6390 also dropped like a lead balloon in value (although today there are few for sale, so the price has inched up somewhat). Also, the older version of both sets had some rare parts that were discontinued and substituted in the new sets (such as the gray rail caps and Cypress tree in the original Main Street set was replaced with gray tiles and a Pine tree in the new version).
I'm not saying that the 10179 is going to tank anytime soon... but when people opt for a (as some here have said) superior 75192, what do you think will happen to the original 10179 prices as folks opt out of buying the older set in lieu of getting the newer one at a fraction of the originals current price?
Wait 10 years and see what the prices of the 2 Millennium Fancons will be at.
Now I know that people here like to wax poetically about the 10179... but just a reality check.... they used to do the same thing about the 398 20 years ago. Just wait a year or two or three... and keep watching the Bricklink prices of the 10179. And get the Tums out...
Sorry to be so blunt... but I've seen this happen so many times before. And I would love to be a fly on the wall when the guy who just paid $4000 for a 10179 this month on Bricklink... gets up to speed and finds out that he could have had a 75192 for a fraction of the price. In 10 years the legendary status of the 10179 will be but a faded memory in the footnote of LEGO history.... like other sets that were re-released.
Been there... seen it happen before.
But I do know I'm glad that I've got it, and because the advent of the new MF means more people are like to think 'What the heck!' and open that 10179 that's been sitting there sealed for years because they feel it's lost some of it's value. As such the chances of me finding another one will probably decrease.
I'm fortunate in that I now have one of each, but if I could only have one?
Put it this way. Despite being 6’ 1”, I've always fancied a small car for a bit of fun. If I had the choice of an 'original' Fiat 500, or the current Fiat 500... well. No contest.
The new one might be more powerful, more reliable, safer, have more features, be cheaper to run, have more space etc etc...
But I'd take the old - original - one every day of the week.
tl;dr
Don't worry what other people think. You want to keep it - keep it. You want to sell it and buy a new one - do that!
One can say what they want about 'rarity'.. with that many for sale at one time... rarity is no longer an issue.