Sure, that’s extremely fair! Those qt dependencies are no joke! How do you feel about Evince (apparently now called gnome document viewer)? It seems to be the standard gtk pdf viewer, but I’ve never used it, so I actually don’t know what it’s features are like. It’s a heavier application than mupdf (of course), but at least you don’t need to install qt to use it!
I don’t know if it’s just me, but I think the updated textures look worse than the original. I looked through all the screenshots and I can’t for the life of me figure out why I’d want to play the re-remastered. The lighting is harsh, the extra detail makes every scene harder to parse and it just looks, I dunno, messy.
But, that’s the beauty of modding! People who like the updated textures and lighting of this mod can install it, and I don’t have to!