Yeah, I agree with the OP since what they're suggesting is essentially the same as any typical remaster these days. That is, for the remasters where it's usually just higher resolution and more detailed textures, I think backwards compatibility should be the default as opposed to a rerelease.
Now, if the devs intend to quadruple the polycount of their models and improve the lighting as well, I would rather they get compensated for that work. But even in that situation, this debate is relevant, as PBR is essentially the end of the road for photorealistic graphics and the only real improvements from now on come down to detail and the accuracy of indirect light information. So the kinds of things we can improve about PS4/XB1 games to justify rereleases are shrinking. Detail level, indirect lighting accuracy (what most people care about with ray-tracing), animation, and quality of life changes are about all you can improve from here on without making it a different game. Those aren't insignificant things, but you'll want to make sure gamers actually notice. Then again, you might be able to sell people with marketing buzzwords alone, who knows?
I dont think people read the OP.
There shouldn't be any separate SKU remasters from the PS4/XBONE era, I agree. Any game released now should just be given patches to add improvements, similar to how the Xbox One X does it.
Keep in mind that these remasters arent just made for people to double dip. They're also made for new players who didnt buy the game in the first place. Why would it be greedy to offer the game for sale again? And with backward compability, you really dont need to buy the remaster to be able to play the game :) Its nice with better visuals of course, i agree to that, but that leaves you with a choice to buy it or not. We're not entitled to get these free updates, and the remastering does require extra work as well, so i wont call this as being greedy.I'm seeing all these comments about people not buying games next year because they saving themselves for the PS5 or Scarlett versions. For me it will only show who the greedy publishers are.
For this gen, no need for remasters next gen.
But bring on the remasters / collections for the PS3 / Xbox 360 and earlier gens.
Could we see psvr2 remasters? vr versions of all your fav ps4 games could do well i think.