Honestly? I didn't actually agree with some of Spoony's points. Let's see...

His claim that Tidus was not the hero of the story is total BS; he appears out of nowhere and, largely by accident mind you, creates enough of a stir (largely because Jecht did so already when Yuna met him, leaving her a bit more incredulous than all the other summoners) that he ultimately forms a team of militant atheists to take down the evil church of Yevon. If Tidus had not been brought to Spira, none of it could've happened. In the sense he was suggesting Yuna was the true heroine, she was about as heroic as any sacrificial victim of any other religion with such practices that our planet ever had, i.e. not very; just an innocent victim.

Also his remarks about Seymour showed that he didn't seem to have grasped the plot very well. Seymour was half human, half Guado. Makes sense that his hair would be that wacky considering his father was a tree-headed thing, but Spoony bitches for many minutes about how ridiculously he styles his hair. I guess he was going for funny but it just comes off as ignorant. He also suspected Seymour headed Operation Mi'hen, when in reality the Crusaders did it without Yevon's input. Seymour just came to give his "blessing" to put the writing on the wall in what I thought was brilliantly cynical actually.

Uh... that's all I can remember :P I'd re-watch it and count more points that I disagree with but I'm very, very limited on bandwidth these days unfortunately.

Now to answer your other question: because the thread title is "I hate this game, why does anyone play it?" - I throw these points out to reinforce the validity of the question. If you have a problem with that then kindly direct it at whomever started the thread.

In all fairness I preferred X-2 for like a bazillion reasons, the main one being there's only one tutorial battle in the entire game and then it leaves you to figure everything out for yourself. Well, I say everything, but it's almost as easy as X was anyway.