My issue with remakes is that in the games industry they're used to replace the original rather than compliment it. Demon's Souls didn't get a remake because Sony had something creative to say with the property. It was remade because they wanted to cash in on the franchise name but didn't want to deal with the rights issues tied to the original. We will never see another official release of the original Demon's Soul on future consoles cause Sony got their new shiny version with no kerfuffle to just fart out every generation now.
Will we ever see an official port of the original non-shitty Spyro PS1 games rather than the crappy remakes? Certainly more likely than the Demon's Souls situation. Maybe on the Playstation 7. But probably not.
Remakes in video games is essentially a cancer to video game preservation and appeals to some lame desire that apparently exists within the gamer culture to replace rather than preserve. At least in the movie industry remakes tend to actually do things different than the original film they're based on, and if they don't, they tend to get shit on (see: Gus Van Sant's Psycho remake). In gaming there's some sort of weird fetishization that a remake has to be "exactly" the same game as the original, but with shinier graphics and probably some control or camera updates to erase all trace of it not being a brand spanking new game. As if PS1 graphics are not part of the charm and identity of something like Crash Bandicoot.
Your Yakuza example is actually the opposite to me. I want to get into the Yakuza series, but I'm not going to until some way to play the original games is available to me, be it by Sega actually porting them instead of just replacing them with the new remakes (which will likely never happen), or I get a hold of a PS2 and play them on that, which is definitely way in the future.
Honestly, while I have no intention of playing the FF7 remake until the whole thing is out, the fact that it actually does things to the story structure of the original game (even if Sephiroth showing up in Midgar is a decision motivated entirely by how absurd it would be to release FF7 media without Sephiroth in it to cash in on the Sephiroth fanbase, rather than any creative narrative decision they have for the character) and has a gameplay system that sets it apart makes it one of the more compelling video game remakes in, well, ever to me.
Fair enough, I respect that you put actual thought into your position. Your Spyro example really resonated with me in particular. The remakes were my first real exposure to that series as well and while I actually do enjoy the remakes, I was also curious enough to try the PS1 versions, and I actually ended up preferring how the PS1 games handled. Movement just felt so much tighter in those games, made me feel more in control of where I was actually going, especially while swimming and flying. And Bentley's persistent over the shoulder camera in the 3rd game's remake? That was completely unbearable, especially when it didn't change for a certain minigame that would have really benefitted from a more revealing camera angle.
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