Stella was the perfect waifu materiel. :(

With one vision, you would never have had a released game.

With another, we're getting a release fairly soon.

Take your pick.

I'm okay with this. Without Nomura's clusterfuck of directing *coughcough* Kingdom Hearts *coughcough* the game might actually be understandable and enjoyable

I just want them to make a game out of that tech demo they've been showing off. That looks much more intriguing than anything ff XV related to me.
But who knows, the changes might actually be positive. Like a brilliant but rough idea can benefit from a good editor to bring it to shine. There's no telling if Tabata changed it for the worse, without seeing the original script, or knowing the actual state the game was in when he took over.
Admittedly I liked the reveal trailer much better than everything road trip related we've seen since then, but by all accounts that roadtrip was there before Tabata ever touched the game. I'd say wait till it's out. See if you like the rewiews, see if you like the gameplay, play it and if you don't like it then, feel free to rant.

This thread is becoming too froggy.

As far as we know hi-jacking enemy mechs and stuff is still in.

The teleportation ability has been revamped in the new demo from the looks of it.  You can teleport on tops of rocks and other places.  

You can manually switch weapons, you just put them in slots to be used accordingly with certain situations.

Summons among a lot of other things are obviously in as well.  Combos are revamped in the new demo from what I saw.  We still haven't seen magic used, but I highly doubt that would be removed.

Either your joking or your completely ignorant about the development of the game.  The game taking so long was not the original team's fault, it was SE's terrible management of the staff.

That sounds like wishful thinking, but I like your optimism though. Knowing that is it not the dark FFvXIII story, I still hope FFXV turns out to be a good game.

This. The Kingdom Hearts games are a collection of shenanigans way too convoluted just for the sake of it, yet those games are the reason why people hold Nomura is so high regard.

I could never understand that. Gameplay is fine in Kingdom Hearts games, sure. But when it comes to the actual stories, Nomura is a pretty poor writer and director.

The one thing I gathered from the news in the OP is that they want to make this game a complete story rather than an episodic one (XIII.) That's a good thing in my opinion.

How was that his fault?  SE forced him to make spin off after spin off.  Your basically mad at him for not putting in filler stories in his games.