Remember "Spoony" is just a character, same with the Angry Angry Video Game Nerd, they're playing the part of someone who picks apart every little detail for our entertainment.
Spoony has said he doesn't actually hate FFVIII as much as the review would make us believe, at most he was just pissed off due to the changes that made it so different from previous games (draw/magic system and junctioning) because he really liked VII.