It's interesting for myself as I remember not liking 7 the first time around but with my most recent watch of the entire macross franchise it resonated with me much better. (I'm assuming because I was much more about "serious" anime when I was younger.) The only thing I thought could've been done was not having the series drag out so long and maybe cut out a lot of the redundant bits. So like if the series was 40 episodes rather than 49.