10th Anniversary Amano key art [6.5+ Spoilers?]

[Enkidoh]

Having only played the original FFVII Crisis Core on the PSP years ago and not the recent PS4/PS5 rerelease, I'm not sure if anything was changed, but back then Minerva was just... a completely optional superboss with just some excuse plotting for her existence thrown in (as is typical of superbosses) - she was literally just something big and powerful for Zack to kill.

It was possible there was a link with her and the nameless "goddess" mentioned in the Loveless poem, but that in itself was just lore padding on something that was just originally just a cheesy romantic play Cid offhandedly mentioned at one point in the original FFVII (itself just a reference to an album by the band My Bloody Valentine no less), so I never bought the idea that Minerva was literally the goddess of FFVII's Planet and the will of the Lifestream. It's also then vaguely possible that Minerva was the figure worshipped originally in Aeris's church in Sector 5, and the angel figure above the archway into Edge's Sector 7 in Advent Children, but that is grasping at straws.

Which leads us back to the artwork for the FFXIV Anniversary page - it's not Minerva, it's clearly Hydaelyn. To claim it's anything or anyone else is just looking for things that aren't there.