Square has absolutely no idea why fans love ff7 to this day. They have no chance of recapturing it, and the last 15 years or so of releases prove they can no longer make good games.

The reality is 90s square was a very different group of developers working for different goals under different circumstances. Seriously brilliant men like Yoshinori Kitase were given directorial roles over staffs of talented individuals.

Squaresoft is dead, if it weren't for enix it would no longer exist as a company. The development cycle for ff15 was as bad as it gets, and it resulted in a pretty awful experience that consumers are still eagerly being fed in bite sized bits.

If you expect anything other than a continuation of this trend you'll be even more let down.

We'll see in 5-7 years, I'd love to be wrong.

Edit: Also, they're more than a game development cycle from the original announcement, have nothing to show but tech demos, yet they knew back then that what they were making would definitely only work as a trilogy release. Fuck off, Square fucking sucks. I'm surprised you cant opt in to paid alphas.