It's all cool, bro. In all seriosity though, a piano might be only one instrument, but what other instrument lets you hit 10 notes (or more with a little creativity) at the same time?
Some might consider the piano to have a plain tone, but that's unrelated to the complexity of piano music itself.
As for the topic, I have to admit I always find these discussions very interesting, both because I used to have the exact same mentality of "honoring the composer" by keeping the arrangement as close to the original as possible, and also because nowadays I actually judge an arrangement's quality by how well the original melody has been transplanted into a radically different context. Uematsu and Mitsuda themselves do this all the time. Case in point: the Chocobo theme. Does anyone realize how absurd it would be if someone accused Electric de Chocobo of not capturing the "spirit" of the original track? That's because it's the whole point! An arrangement creates its own context, its own "spirit," so I hope people see why such complaints are moot at best.
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