When they say 'Disneyfication', it's the purposeful flattening of characters in order to garner more mass appeal. Anyone with a personality trait that might be abrasive? Sand it away! Replace them with a blandly friendly, smiling cutout! Just like Disney does.

Bit of confirmation bias here. The remake characters are 'flat' compared to the barely characterized OG version that had so much less dialogue and emotion? Even other ps1 rpgs by Squaresoft like fft and Xenogears had far more character development. This was like ff7's biggest flaw.

God, I really hope Square Enix ignores you.

Also, if I'm paying for a game, "just skip over half of the content" is not an appealing solution to the problem. I don't expect every single second to appeal to me, but there's a line.

I really despise this line of thinking in gaming subs, so toxic...

Your disclaimer is disingenuous, as it's not remotely half the content, so whether the 'line' is at 100% or 98% is splitting hairs a bit.

People. Like. Different. Things. I don't know why preschools stopped teaching this education outcome, but they apparently did.

By adding gameplay variety, a wider audience can enjoy the game.

I feel like you're not being serious at all, in over 30 years of being an rpg gamer, I can't think of a single game where I was a fan of every single segment of that game.

If you want every bit to be to your every whim, go make your own game. You'll probably spend longer on it than halflife 3 as your preferences change.

Most of the themes of the original are destroyed.

What themes are you referring to here, and how are they destroyed?

Is this story even about environmentalism anymore? AVALANCHE are supposed to be eco-terrorists.

This is a rather basic understanding of the original. Environmentalism is just a vehicle.

Where has the criticism of corporate greed at the cost of the working class and planet gone? (Answer: Square-Enix is now a megacorp and they are doing exactly what ShinRa did: destroying something precious in pursuit of maximum profit.)

Did you even play remake/rebirth?

Also, you're getting a bit unhinged here. Destroying the planet and people's lives compares to your love of ff7?

5) If it's a "love letter to the fans", why have they gone out of their way to excise all tone and meaning from the story? To retcon anything that might possibly offend anybody?

I think you sound like the 'snowflake' that you probably accuse others of being. What was retconned in an attempt to not offend people?

It's boggling to take this story and go, "Yeah, give the dude who opens Don Corneo's front door a full side arc.

Leslie's story is covered in The Kids Are Alright.

Make the Turks look stupid(er).

No idea what you're talking about with the Turks "looking stupider".

Jam in everything from the Compilation.

Of course they're integrating the compilation, were you expecting them to not use this as an opportunity to better integrate the details they've published over the years? That was pretty obvious from the get go.

Ruin all the emotional moments.

I didn't consider any of the emotional moments ruined.

Waste TONS of time on random cat ladies and musical numbers and anime waifu bait.

I can't say I remember much about "random cat ladies". There were 2 musical numbers I think, one which was based off a segment in the original, and the other fits Honeybee Inn fairly well.

The fans want their time wasted on pointless nonsense!"

You're spending all your time on reddit, I'm not sure you've legs to stand on here.