I'm sorry I didn't mean to imply that it's that bad that they are copied. Seriously that's done in every game ever and for completely understandable reasons.

Visually at least these few screenshots do lack in at least my personal opinion originality and landmarks that were big complaints from the community.

SE has used a lot of Team Kusanagi's work on many FF games from VII to XII.
I'm not sure if they were hired for XIV but I hope 2.0 has something along those lines in creativity.

2.0 concept art looks great though. I wonder why they decided to show trees and desert locations first since 1.0 already has both and there's not really anything that new about them.