I didn't think it was bad but I honestly do not remember a single track from it. I just finished Persona 5 and I could hum 15 tracks from it's OST right now. I guess it could just be fresh in my mind but I can do the same for Ninja Gaiden and I played that game 20 years ago.
"Stand by Me" is a good song and FATM did a good cover of it, but it was actually "Weight of The World" in Nier: Automata that reminded me how great SE can be with theme songs, in FF especially.
I wouldn't say it's my favorite mainline soundtrack but it has some very strong tracks throughout. My favorite is one of the late-game tracks, Hellfire.
First time i heard it in the overworld i was like what the fuck that tune was the shit.
It really captured how i felt when realised how open the initial overworld is.
I would even wait till the track was over before finishing hunts or entering dungeons.
So good.
Still good but I felt it was the weakest mainline FF OST since V.
Even a few months later I feel Persona 5 and Nier Automata both have superior soundtracks when older FF's used to be so far ahead of the pack in that regard.
I felt like the soundtrack was incomplete in a way. I was under the impression that it features way fewer tracks than any FF since FFIV at least. Maybe I'm wrong about that though.