I finished FF7 Remake, yesterday. I never played the original FF7 and the first part of the remake was the most frustrating and polarizing videogame I have ever played. For every bit of gorgeous CGI or interesting art direction; there was a load of frustrating cutscenes or filler gameplay (crawling in vents, jumping chandeliers, ridiculously bad side-quests and NPC's).
I love FF7 Remake, but I also kind of hate it.
I just started Rebirth and from the get go it is already feeling a lot more fluid, the world feels better, pacing is great AND combat is drastically improved. I hope they nail it with part 3 because I feel quite invested right now