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Ouch!
It's not that it's not something I do think about, it's just when you think about it to the point where you either make/find a picture illustrating the similarities you're thinking too much about it.
Those are all Nomura designed characters, right? That's really the only explanation I deem necessary. When characters are all made by the same person, there definitely will be many similarities. That doesn't mean Nomura intentionally combined Cloud, Squall, and Tidus. It's just Nomura's stylistic influence.
By the way, you don't have to think at all to realize where Cloud's outfit came from in the original. That was so blatantly obvious to begin with.