Absolutely. I think most of us are excited for incremental evolution.
And conversely a lack of that is the chief source of my frustration with games. Bethesda is another dev that comes to mind with the loading screen debacle that was Starfield.
Hey I was a skeptic too but got to play it for an hour during the network test and am actually cautiously optimistic. I could still be wrong but it seemed like they put a lot of thought into the new systems.
The art in Final Fantasy has always been my favorite. I haven’t even played in years but I still follow a bunch of their artists. Yoshitaka Amano, Akihiko Yoshida, on and on