There seems to be a lot of short term thinking with these remastered ports.
Hire the lowest bidder, track record be damned.
Perhaps also there is much ignorance and apathy towards technical competence at the executive decision making level. You'd think a company like Sony would be smart enough to hire wise long term decision makers in an arm as critical to its long term success as PlayStation.
From my experience only one studio has demonstrated flawless technical prowess to port one generation up. That studio is Hexadrive. Either them, or get the original developers on board.
I can't stand sloppy or dodgy deals to the least deserving.