dunno, i'd agree ff7 and ff8 should have been in 2d, my view of the whole 2d-3d stuff is-
2d looks better than any 3d that doesn't make me go "wow thats really shiny"
but ff9, x, xi and so on got amazing 3d graphics and there a lot more of such hella good 3d ones which i think are far superior to 2d (and far laggier)