PS4 FF7 Remake

Please explain this... Does an open world with nothing in it is actually better?

According to the situation, the answer might even be yes.
World map were actually empty, thinking about that better... aside FF9 Chocobo treasure hunt and few similar quests, the main purpose of a map should be connect the locations, not to be the main location of the game, all what i actually expect from a map is an enjoyable travel and find secret locations that leads to submaps or just new locations that leads to submaps.
Random fights are welcomed of course but after all the essential is that.
so i might group what i hate of open worlds in 3 points:
- world location becomes full of unnecessary shit;
- most of the times quests revolve around search that shit;
- world becomes a huge sub map, rather than a connection between sub maps.
(some open world game might not have all the 3 points at the same time in their game)
After all mankind since ages makes maps to semplify the representation of the planet, that must be why i like world maps in game.

So is a map, every developer can do one. SE never claimed until now that they wanted to do a complete new kind of game, they only said the remake would be different from the original. Also, I think every AAA game wants to be different. I'm understanding you're saying that open worlds is a big trend and some are shitty, but be aware that they could come up with a crappy map as well.

Everybody can do that but nobody does it... why?
i'd rather prefer to see them fail with a world map rather than a open world, even because i've never seen a failure map until now(the closest thing that comes in my mind is FF2 world map because it was too much wide since the beginning and well... it was quite similar to an open world on a second thought: if you spend a whole day exploring a map and still no made any significant progress, then it's a bad sign)

I can feel in your post you're disliking the idea of open world in any circumstances and in any context, but that can't be backed up with "arguments", it's just a solid personal taste.

About FF7 i think you're goddamn right
I might tollerate it(still it should be done well), if we weren't talking about great milestones of video game history