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>>9755605
That's correct, and that's not even bait.
Pic related from a Sakaguchi comment about FF7 Remake.
FF7 was good and had the Chrono Trigger team do it, but it was the beginning of the end for the series.

Its cinematic focus hoarded all focus at the expense of everything else.
By FF8 and FF9, they were so obsessed with the long animation cutscenes for super moves that they didn't even care that the ATB queue was hopelessly glitched and effectively became pointless button mashing. It was such an easy fix that a romhack addressed it too.
From there on, it was an inevitable downwards spiral to the ATB system getting dropped, that abominable Kingdom Hearts battle system, and then how it became a semi-action RPG with very shallow gameplay and even shallower storylines.
Of course they had to create an inhouse VFX team to keep up with the demand for those movie-like production values. Of course they ended up creating a movie with that kind of vapid storylines. Of course it destroyed them and left the corpse for Sony to loot even harder. Of course talent was gradually driven away from the company and ironically things like Front Mission and Parasite Eve that were made as collabs with actual live action writers started to get shafted and deprioritized.

Whatever the series became, it was no longer Final Fantasy.