Better where? I don't think I'll ever understand this position. Lighting in particular is a clear step above TLOU2. Light bounces are far more accurate than TLOU2. There's a reason why framerate tanks often when flashlight is in use.
I don't think tlou 2 looks better, except some locations that are inherently more beatiful\evocative like the flaming village, the first time you met the baldies, the part with the boat, when you enter the jungle with the horse etc, or the amount of unique animations that vastly destroy joel moveset or the level design composition that is way bolder and realistic than the arena looking levels of remake (at least most of them), except that remake looks better yeah.
But it is also true that the remake doesn't looks MUCH better than 2, it really feels like tlou2 in 4k, bouncing lights are not something that many people care or even notice, i mean many people can't notice rtx that are even more advanced than anything the remake use...
Bouncing lights are the type of stuff that console players always use to troll pc players and their ultra settings, you can show tlou 2 and tlou remake to 100 persons and barely anyone is gonna notice the fucking bouncing lights (and i'm mostly a pc player)
And even if the assets are reworked, there is still a lot of ugly\low poly\res stuff around that scream last gen, the difference between a dark souls 3 and demons remake this is not.
It still looks better than majority of games, but so does tlou2, this was never the point of discussion and really a stupid thing to say to prove a point tbh, we barely had any nextgen game since tlou2, it is only natural that even a slight upgrade would look glorious in 2022.
And i played both games on a c1, not exactly a slouch tv.
I don't like to antagonize other members, but i feel like i'm being trolled by anyone who says that remake is a BIG upgrade over 2, it is a noticeable upgrade because 4k is clearly better than 1440p to whoever has working eyes so noticeable is not wrong, but anything more than noticeable is an exageration.