so my issue w/ gits 2017 was that it seemed like they picked out the scenes that folks loved from the original (falling from the roof, the garbage man fight scene, the spider tank final battle) and strung them together with hamfisted bastardization of the prominent themes of the original, mixed in with the tv show (stand alone complex) 2nd season villain / lover.
essentially, it missed the forest for the trees, and replanted all the trees in a new place w/out any of the bushes, flowers, walking paths, clearings, or birds.
also there was the whole backlash about scarjo being cast as an asian woman (criticism that i agree with but not a dealbreaker for watching it) that they tried to explain away in-universe with scenes clearly filmed separately and shoved in (way worse than just being obtuse about lack of representation)
I think the point that stuck most with me was all about looking forwards from today and extrapolating a future that isn't all dystopia. I don't think that gits 2017 moved this forward at all, just copied the existing future from the 1995 anime. However I'm also sure that if they had materially changed it, there would have been a huge backlash too, so idk. But maybe this idea can be given new life in a spinoff or something.
sorry for rambling a bit
edit: also, do you have a link to that screenshotted thread?
edit2:
https://twitter.com/monikabielskyte/sta ... 1113240577