On the scale of Final Fantasy games it's on the lower end. I personally think watching an 30 minutes of cutscenes, running some fetch quests, and then fighting a big boss isn't the most fun game loop.

Towns have no life to them. Just a couple NPCs standing around. World is amazing, but feels dead. Like a dragon quest game.

Needs a beast of a computer to play at high FPS.

Combat was fun for some time, but got repetitive and boring after a while. Essentially boils down to hitting dodge QTEs between mindlessly spamming eikon (espers) abilities. There is no real strategy or challenge involved.

The game technically let's you roam and explore, but there isn't really a reason to do it nor anything meaningful to find.
Almost all "loot" you can get is as useless as the "crafting system". The gear, like anything else, is fully railed and linear.

The main story is good. The general plot, world and characters are very Final Fantasy, in a positive way.
However, it does not justify the endless cutscenes. Very often you will find yourself finally out of a long cutscene, only to move 10 inches forward for another cutscene to start. It's exhausting.

The side-quests are just silly. Waste of time with stories that are often just embarrassing.

Combat is fun, music is spectacular (as-is expected for every FF game), story is entertaining but the pacing is AWFUL. When the important story elements get going they're entertaining and immersive. But you could honestly remove almost all of the side quests disguised as "main story quests" and you wouldn't even miss any important story details. (They should've reworked them to be entertaining in some other aspect, perhaps do a combat-focused trial?) We don't need to see every single "okay, we need to head to this destination but oh man the person we're supposed to meet up with hasn't shown up on time! We need to go check on him! Oh no! He's being attacked by monsters, we need to help him!" in every second main scenario quest.

I'm a fan of FF14 but even I can see the flaws in putting in dated and meaningless filler fetch quests just to prolong game length. Okay sure, they've made the fetch quests a little bit more bearable by letting you fast travel to your quest target to end the quest.. but that's like putting a bandaid on a problem that shouldn't even exist in the first place. This game tries hard to be a mix and mash of multiple things strewn together but executed really poorly.

If you're going to make the game linear, make the side content fetch quests completely optional not mandatory. If we want that extra bit of lore and worldbuilding, you've already provided plenty of optional resources, lore texts, NPCS to read upon for those interested. FFX for example handled linearity but made each cutscene meaningful and contributes to the story with the characters and moment to moment making you like them more and more. You actually LOOKED FORWARD to the next upcoming cutscene because of this.

Here it's just... "aight I've met up with familiar side character X, okay now I'mma accompany them to slay these vile fiends in order to gain access to the next area because Dickleberg Hunkenberry won't let me into town until I've done all his laundry"

This game really had the potential to be so much better if it wasn't handled so poorly. Yes, there's improvements from its predecessor FF15 (and 16 is actually a finished product with its development not being nearly as troubled) but it feels like modern Final Fantasy games (7 remake trilogy included) suffer from losing some of the foundations of what makes them great in the first place by focusing too much production and budget into AAA graphics, gimmicks and meaningless side content rather than following through with the execution of telling a good story in a well-paced manner balanced with the gameplay to show for it.