Again, the changes are ridiculously minor. Kendra mentions a girflriend once during the intro. That's it. If that makes the experience worse, I really don't know what to tell you. Or let's put it like this: among various changes the game introduces an honest to God straight couple. Man and woman, probably only have sex in the missionary position for reproductive purposes. Does that even out Kendra being gay?
I haven't figured out the equation to the 2 redshirts in the intro being gender/race swapped, since they still get murked almost instantly.
I don't care whether people like the remake or not, but most of the complaints that I've seen come across as nitpicky and pedantic, the kinda talking points you'd see on /v/, y'know the ones that feel like they're being made made by people that definitely don't even play videogames anymore. That might be a reason why there's some sneeding back.
We could discuss whether or not the backtracking adds anything to the game or if it's just some padding made to exploit the autistic part of my brain that compels me to scour every corner of the ship for goodies, or we could bring up the (optional, turned off by default) content warnings, or Kendra being gay, or the bathroom signs, or the graffiti or any other minor bullshit that doesn't affect the experience at all. The kinda things you'd have to stop and look for instead of, y'know, playing the game.