The remake by the way is brilliant in it's own right. The team made comments around making something sufficiently different that it wouldn't be seen as trying

The remake by the way is brilliant in it's own right. The team made comments around making something sufficiently different that it wouldn't be seen as trying to replace the original, but that could sit alongside it as a retelling of the story. I think they absolutely nailed it in this regard and if anything, finishing FF7R has me wanting to play through the original all over again. Even at that, I wouldn't expect the spoiler we're talking about from the article to happen the same way in Rebirth, or possibly even at all. It's too good of an opportunity to surprise people that I think they take a dramatically different direction (my guess would be on the same story element happening featuring another major character, but this seems like lazy writing). Very excited for the next entry regardless.