This is some old man yells at cloud shit. Games have a significant technical component and things like graphical fidelity, resolution, wide screen support, frame rate, and ease of use are all important. Unless you think games are movies and gameplay doesn't actually matter.

The problem isn't remakes, the problem is bad remakes. Sort of like the argument over cgi effects in movies. Like the problem in Metal Gear Twin Snakes on the gamecube isn't that they got rid of the polygon warbling and made it higher resolution, it's that they wrecked the contrast, pointlessly replaced iconic voice lines, and re-edited the cutscenes to be poorly edited bullet time nonsense.