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1. How Long We're Calms? Was it ever explicitly stated?

2. What do you think happened to the temples after Sin and Yu Yevon were gone? My guess, just used to honor great summoners. You think they may have torn them down?

3. If all aeons were necessary to complete the journey, why was Anima not needed even though Seymour summons it. I Understand Magus and Yojimbo were optional for gameplay challenges, but Anima is shown in an important scene during the blitzball tourney.
No, they never were. Two years is incorrect: we don't know (based on lack of in-game evidence) of lengths between Calms (since you are asking for explicit evidence). They would simply last however long it took for Yu Yevon to craft his newly captured Aeon into another Sin.

10 years is the difference between when Braska defeated Sin, and the beginning of Yuna's journey. The Ultimania may clarify, but I do not recall such a statement being made anywhere. Two years is coincidentally, the amount of time that has passed since the end of Yuna's journey and the Eternal Calm video clip that comes with FFX International and the start of FFX-2.

In FFX-2, most of the Temples remain intact, whether it's because of continued religious reverence (old habits die hard), or practicality (the Machina Corps), or something else, is left to the interpretation of the player. Macalania collapses into the lake beneath due to Shiva no longer being present. The Calm Lands shrine is also inaccessible, along with Baaj. What is said to occur after is the realm of fan-fiction.

You don't need all of the Aeons. You only need to have journeyed long enough to grow powerful enough with the Aeon(s) and to have the proper experience. Seymour summons Anima because that is his own Final Aeon. Based on the "flashbacks" in Zanarkand when you get there, you can see a young Seymour complaining to his mother. What other reason would anyone have to be there, behind a mountain and a fall of fiends?