What's the Point of Modding FF6 on Different Platforms?

But doesn't it seem silly to you to do all this work to change all the sprites to a version that is 20 years old and looks bad to 95% of gamers, just so it's not the even worse version that it is now? That is some serious long-term dedication to unlocking the modding potential of a retro-RPG

Edit: What I mean is, for the game to be really playable by more than 5% of gamers, I think this game would have to have modern looking sprites that actually look great--so reverting the sprites backwards is just extra work to go back to the foundation of a 20 year old game that is already more easily mod-able.