I do miss those as well. While the new opening cut scenes are just "ok". The 1.0 ones were pretty epic and reminded me how awesome Final Fantasy is.

When I saw some of the cut scenes and story/bosses from part 4 of the Lightning event, it reminded me of this. I wish they'd add more story to the game. I don't see why the 1.0 story intros were removed really. Are people just that impatient to start stabbing stuff?