I'm not surprised to hear this.
...And this means... Oh great, another wave of people bashing something Gen III-related, simply because they aren't Gen II. God, so, SO sick of the "New-Gen-Hate" that has come with every Gen since III.
And I'm sick of the Gen III fanboyism. I like Gen III, but I don't see any reason for it to be remade.
Besides, the Sonic games got better once Sega acknowledged the fanbase, they fixed Sonic 4 and made Colors and Generations for da fans.
The fanbase still complains even with Sonic 4, Colors, and Generations
(as well as getting average to mediocre scores from Game Trailers and Jim Sterling).
The point is that listening to the fanbase for ideas will result a disaster waiting to happen.
Plus, wasn't the series' main target audience children (the people complaining seem to be those who grew up with Sonic as kids)?
The series is targeted to children in much the same way as Mario is. Both series will primarily focus on the younger demographic, but some attention is given to the older fanbase that grew up with the franchise.
So yeah, R/S remakes. Can't say I'm surprised about a possibility of them being made. I'll definitely be looking out for them and seeing what new things it'll have in store.
My main beef with remakes NOW is that I want there to be new evolutions for a lot of either weaksauce or non-evolving Hoenn Pokemon. That's what made the FRLG cool - because you got to play through Kanto and still use the evolutions introduced in Gen II (Crobat, Steelix, Blissey), and with HGSS they introduced a ton of new evolutions for sucky Generation II Pokemon (Weavile, Honchkrow, Mismagius, Ambipom, and Togekiss to name a few). The roster of Hoenn Pokemon who have gotten evolution family updates is really, really sparse right now but I'm hoping G6 will fix that.
The impression I get is that you want the remakes to introduce new Pokemon...
It's usually the new Gens that introduce Pokemon, not the remakes, but I'm sure you know that. Also, Gen V didn't introduce new evolutions/babies because they intended for all-new Pokemon that didn't have any relation with older Pokes. :/ Probably because Unova was meant to be a faraway region.
I would love remakes so much, Hoenn was my first region to explore and I loved it! Was to young for those early games haha