X was drastically good, with a 91% liked rating regardless of retarded criticism.
The story is pretty in depth, and requires several playthroughs to understand certain elements (like why seymour replace jyskall, how tidus ended up where he did, etc.)
The only part about X I can see what people don't like is the first 3-4 hours is basically a tutorial with very dull mechanics, after you get past the blitzball game the difficulty gets exponentially hard, I would bet that OP never even got to the optional boss "Nemesis".
I do think FF7 is better (however outdated) but X is definitely legendary and anyone who doesn't like it obviously has dad issues themselves or something that they project.
Final Fantasy 7 is the best game in the series. Change my mind
Benjamin Ward