English Digimon is currently owned by Eleven Arts. I haven’t heard of them doing anything stupid with the series they’ve licensed (and in the case of Digimon they’ve actually been somewhat fanservicey to fans of the Saban dub of the original series).
They haven’t recast Vic to play Matt, mind, but after everything that’s happened (and is still on-going), it’s rather understandable.
“Raw” basically just means watching the original version, no sub or dub. I’d say you’d have to be a bit hardcore to learn another language just to watch anime, though (and learning Japanese isn’t like learning French or German. If you actually want to go to Japan, one day, though, then that’s another matter).