>>2675959214 actually was shit at launch. It didn't get good until ARR. MMOs don't really count anyway, they're just mooching off the name.
And 10 was the zombie season premiere for the series. It's when Squeenix thought anyone gave enough of a shit about a JRPG story to sit through it voiced. Even if the combat and character systems in 10 were the culmination of the classic FF formula, the game is marred for setting the "you expect me to listen to all that shit by you" standard that the series can never escape from now.