Well if you understand what the PES animations represent you will see it's going to be mighty hard for them to make the game look beautiful in and purely aesthetic way
FIFA's look great but they don't add any depth to a game don't they? FIFA's animations are the best but the game has about as much depth as a wet sock! You do realize that game has pretty much nothing else to it but those animations, they are highly generic and barley take any stats into account! Predictably I'm seeing people who were praising the game as the best football game ever, only two weeks after saying that complaining of it being easy!
well it's their loss

. Not many people i know laugh PES, anyway the people i know that do stop laughing after i show them how good the game is.
I know many people even when fifa was good back in 2008 and 2009 who were totally adamant that fifa was a laughable game, and still are!
There is true free movement it's just you, you need to learn how what players move more freely than others i terms of their stats and how to properly use it
South America? Arabic Nations? Whole of Asia?
Basically PES is fine and as long as they don't do a PES 2008 or 2009 on us, Those people who crossed over and focus only on animations were only playing PES because back in the PS2 days PES had better animations than fifa! Wounldn't worry about them anyway!