Huge budget is fine, but many Square games had a large budget, not just FF.
CGs were only introduced in FF7. What about the first six? Also Parasite Eve had CGs for damn near half the game length and isn't a FF title.
About technical showpiece, that's true and all...for three of the 12 FFs. What about the other 9 though?
This is just proving my point further. Some contain many characteristics that don't fit into another FF model.








