You're a bit late to the party, lol. I completely agree though, XIII completely abandoned so much of what makes the series (and JRPGs) great. X at least still retained some of the aspects of the previous Final Fantasy's. I suppose the odd one is XII which was quite traditional but suffered from development problems and changes in focus which meant characters like Vaan and Penelo were completely pointless (among other problems).
Mind you, XIII also had massive development problems:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/30640/Exclusive_Behind_The_Scenes_of__Square_Enixs_Final_Fantasy_XIII.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+GamasutraNews+%28Gamasutra+News%29
Playing it I can see these faults in action (and so can you by the OP). Unless you really like the story and characters (which I didn't, in fact I hated all of them to some degree) theres not much that's particularly enjoyable in XIII.
Sounds like they recognise the problems so hopefully XIII-2 and XIII Versus are actually good.
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