The history revisionism around this game is insane, this game is fucking booty cheeks bad. It inherently doesnt work due to both the technology of the time and the type of game it is. You get used to the horrible gameplay, but thats not the game growing on you, its you shrinking to the game. Grinding is so ass backwards, its horrible. This version is the best this game could ever be without being a full remake from the ground up.
The only positives about this game are that it is mercifully short (unlike ff8), and that it basically invented final fantasy and stories in video games as a whole (despite 1s being better lmaooo). Very important game in history, but please dont pretend that its good