The Remastered Remake of the Re-release

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I've been seeing a lot of people online clowning on game devs like Bethesda and Naughty Dog for their constant re-releases and remasters, etc of Skyrim and The Last of Us respectively. They get called "lazy" and "unoriginal" for "porting old games onto newer systems for a quick buck" 

Personally, I think it's a good thing that more and more devs are bringing their older games up to date and making them accessible on newer systems. I can't even begin to count how many older games I've wanted to play fully legally only to find that their not on any digital stores and/or can only be found secondhand for hundreds of dollars. It benefits old players because they have an excuse to revisit, it benefits new players because it's now accessible to a wider audience, and it benefits the devs and distributors because it brings in a new stream of revenue and lowers the risk of piracy.

I can't really see a downside to remasters and remakes, surely they can't take away too much energy from devs that they can't put as much energy in their newer games. Surely most of the work on remasters is already done and they're just tweaking them slightly? I know in cases like The Last of Us Part I, they pretty much remade the game from the ground up and only reused dialogue, sound effects and music from the original. But I'd also imagine that no additional writing or concept art was needed so no dev power was taken off their unreleased stuff? 

What are you guy's opinions on this?

EDIT: also, happy 100 threads!