I defend Reload all the time here because it gets a lot of unfair hate from posers but in reality I've played FES and P3P a lot more than Reload (which I did two playthroughs of).
I won't respect your opinion if you haven't played all of these games and don't understand why they exist. Atlus could shit out ten billion Persona 3/4 remakes and I'd still play them and it won't ever detract from me liking the older games.
A lot of people just want to be angry about things they don't understand.