I agree with you here. I knew this guy who wanted to play FF games, but he only had a PS2 memory card, so he could only borrow FFX from me. So I let him borrow it, and he thought it was pretty good. Then I said, "Well, man, you gotta try FFVII. Seriously."
But he got so bored with it. He'd be playing, and I'd be watching and helping out, but he'd just stop. He'd be at a part where there was dialogue which means READING since they don't have voices on FF7. And he'd just stop pushing Circle. He would just sit there on the same text box for about 10 minutes because he wasn't interested in reading this stuff.
I think they should remake FF7, in some form, but I think it would be REALLY tough to stay true to the original masterpiece. I mean, FF7 was an excellent game, and if you change something that's already excellent, you're likely to make it less excellent.