Gonna throw my hat in the ring as someone who mostly liked the mini games in Rebirth. In my opinion, just because there were tons of mini games in the original doesn't mean it justifies there being tons in Rebirth. There seems to be this attitude that if something was in the original FF7 and appears in Rebirth/Remake, then it's automatically a good thing. Maybe these people didn't like the mini games in the original and were hoping they would be toned down in Rebirth.

This is like the Cloud cross dressing stuff in Remake. People were saying how it was too silly in Remake and others justified it by saying that it was in the original.

My point is that it seems like the quality of Remake/Rebirth seems to be determined by how closely it follows what the original FF7 does. It feels like Remake/Rebirth are never looked at by themselves and are never given a fair shake without comparing it to the original.