Why would somebody who has zero experience with the original and has avoided every piece of information about the original be mad that this remake is being split into parts? They have no frame of reference for the original to even be upset about.
...Because it's called Final Fantasy VII Remake, and therefore they expected a remake of Final Fantasy VII, not a remake of 25% of Final Fantasy VII?
Also why would somebody who has never played the original also avoid any information about the remake. That's just blindly buying a game you know literally know nothing about, which isn't on SE. Those people could buy it and be mad that it's not an action RPG, would that be Square's fault?
They would check the blurb or the box and expect to get the basic information they needed there, and, as I already established, they wouldn't, because that blurb is nowhere near explicit enough.
This whole discussion is absurd and has always been absurd. The examples of people who are going to be upset either assume that people who don't follow every piece of gaming news are complete idiots, which is insulting, or it invents scenarios where people are actively choosing to be uninformed about the products they buy.
The discussion is only considered absurd by insufferable nerds who not only spend a considerable amount of their time reading about and discussing upcoming games online, but are so sheltered that they actually think literally everyone who buys games does the same thing. The truth is, many people buy games having just looked at the title and the box/blurb, and there's nothing wrong with that. They're not absolute idiots, by any stretch, and the fact that you think they are skeaks volumes.
Square has actively gone out of their way to inform people that this is being split into parts and if people choose to ignore that then that's on them.
They absolutely have not. Neither the title nor the blurb make that clear.
Jesus, if that's not clear enough then that could just as easily happen if the title was part 1."Ooh they're gonna make sequels to that cool game I played 20 years ago"
No it wouldn't, and you know it. A "Part 1" or "Midgar" or SOMETHING beyond just "Final Fantasy VII Remake" and nothing else would be much, much clearer than that vague blurb (Imagine if The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was literally just called The Hobbit, for Christ's sake). The fact that you think their thought process would just immediately jump to "clearly, they're taking what was one game and remaking it as multiple games" is really weird given that this has, at least based on my knowledge, literally never ever happened before.