Because he is a mature gamer who plays mature games made for mature gamers.

How did you get that from what he wrote??? O_o

Nothing there came off as mature to me. 

He has also said that every Nintendo game ages badly. Hes just trolling. I just wanted to see if he ever responds.

This is also what I wanted with my question to him.

Well dont hold your breath...of the wild.

It was, but that's why I pointed out extreme. As linearity isn't neccesarily a bad thing if done right.
This is a map of the first few hours of XIII:
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Fa2GtnRS--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/18j45s028kfkcjpg.jpg

The first 5-6 hours are almost literally a straight tunnel.
To make matters worse, there was hardly anything in between being funneled between point A and B. (Until you reach Gran Pulse, which I did 40 hrs into the game.) No villages/cities you could explore, lacking minigames, puzzles, etc.
I don't recall much of a recation towards in what way FFX was linear, except that it's missing an explorable overworld, which is a pretty big deal.

People being annoyed with Tidus I do recall. I also didn't like his, and several other character's, English voice actors. And because I played the Japanese version first, I realized that the way their voice actors portyrayed them made some of them feel like completely different characters to me, and greatly affected my empathy for them.

As for cinematic, I wonder if that wouldn't be something people changed their minds about as time passed? Not only because that kind of storytelling in games is standard, but because FF games always had those cutscenes. They were just presented with textbox dialogues and a static camera, instead of voice acting and a dynamic camera.

Regarding the "HAHAHA" scene, I recently saw a Q&A video with Tidus' English voice actor, and he said a surprisingly large amount of people who talk to him about that didn't understand that Tidus intentionally made it sound ridiculous for Yuna.
Again, possibly because I played the Japanese version first, I never considered it to be anything else.
If I knew that someone was intentionally making a line cringeworthy, I wouldn't use it as an example of something that is cringeworthy as a critique towards it. Cringeworthy is usually when something is percieved differently than it was intended.

Anyway, I know people have gripes with something in every FF game. But I don't know if I know of an equivalent to FF8's Draw System of FFXIII's tunnel simulator in FFX that people commonly pinpoint as something that ruins the game to anywhere near the same degree.

That's great to hear, but at the same time I'm trying to keep an even keel, going into the game with no hype and expectations. I don't want to overhype the game and set myself up for any kind of dissapointment. That will make it that much sweeter when the game does likely blow my mind.