Thanks to Gary Sato, I just got to play Seminole and I had played Cypress Point a long time ago (20 years or so). At the core of this debate is actually equipment and the spread in distances between recreational players and top players in my opinion ... and following that Seminole holds up better than Cypress Point depending on how far your hit the ball. For someone like me, Cypress Point is still the best course in the world of those that I have played or seen, and Seminole is high up in the upper echelon.
Let me elaborate on distance. I'm around 50 years old, rusty scratch player, drive around 270-275 yards, hit 8-iron 155 ish. Most of my recreational friends are around 10 handicap and drive around 220 yards and hit 8-iron 125 ish. Two people I play a lot of golf with on a relative basis are my nephew who is one of the top juniors in the world and a friend who is a mini-tour pro. They hit it 310 ish off the tee and 8 iron is 180 or so.
I haven't played CP in a long time, but I would think I would find it OK yardage wise and still great design-wise. Maybe play a little short. If I played Seminole from the 7,250 tees (we played from 6,700), I'd probably find it about right or slightly long.
For my recreational friends, CP would be a good distance, and we'd have to figure-out which tees they should play at Seminole.
However, for my nephew and mini-tour pro, Seminole would probably play short at 7,250 while CP they would find uninteresting on a lot of shots (based on previous comments at a few other courses.)
It's become harder to have more consensus on how a course stands because it seems the spread in distance from top players vs recreational players has increased so much.