The point?
What most people want from a remaster is that it runs on modern systems smoothly at resolutions up to 4K and ultra Wide support. That most of the things they know from the original is left untouched (for nostalgia reasons or well a remaster is not a remake) or least have them toggable between the Remaster version and the Original (Which Rome Remaster does).
This remaster isn't just a new coat of paint, they included a lot of things (which again can be turned off to what they where in the original) in the campaign settings. Other gameplay settings you can switch between Original and Remaster, new factions added, new agent on the campaign map to name a few things. Also it included both expansions and if you happen to have the original you get till June a 50% discount on the whole lot.
And seeying the current state of most modern Total War Games (Rome II, Attila, Brittania etc) , yeah I rather be the gullible nostalgic goggle wearing drunk. I like to be able to enjoy older games again with some improvements on a modern rigs because the original didn't run, runs unstable or not smooth or doesn't support higher resolutions.
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