Why the original vs the remake on a tight budget [v1]

Quick context: I am relatively new to this and trying to find my footing.

Maybe an unpopular opinion but here we go. There is a lot of conflicting advice online and most of it is from 2019.

Posting this here because the relevant subreddit has gotten too noisy lately. Not sure if this is the right place to ask, mods please remove if it is not. Spent the last few weekends digging into this and the deeper I go the more questions I have.