Looking through every single developmental detail about Re:Fantasy (they went radio silent after 2019, which is when the project got rebooted more formally into the "Metaphor" we know today), I don't think Atlus ended up being as revolutionary as they thought they'd end up being and in comparison to how massive the scope of Re:Fantasy seemed to be, Metaphor does feel ultimately very lacking.
I really do wonder what was the original vision during Re:Fantasy, that shit kept getting dev posts and news constantly through 2017-2019 until it got rebooted and the vaarus happened.
It's definitely not the medieval fantasy they had in mind and promoted for a very long while (there's still oldkenberg in EO).
I still wish I could see the proper Re:Fantasy actually exist someday, I doubt it though