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Nah your San Andreas would be lacking some of the music the PS2 version still has :)

Actually is in the same boat. It was also ruined by Rockstar and multiplayer removed for absolutely no reason than to push their launcher crappy launcher.
Multiplayer still works if you downgrade after purchase though.

Originally, it seems they just AI upscaled the mobile versions of the games, and changed some stuff; like removing the fog and adding rain effects (both changes looked terrible).
Now they had manually fixed some of the issues and I think the fog was added back or is an option; to hide the game's render distances.
Im not sure what else changed, but the topping was, they REMOVED the original games from ALL Store fronts to sell the definitive edittion; but given how bad it was, they gave the original games on THEIR PC launcher; while everyone else could not get said games anymore.

That's what I was thinking 10$ maybe 15$ max. 30$ no way. Look at Mass Effect Legendary Edition it's already 15$ for 3 old games, with tons of DLC content aswell.

I may be wrong as I checked from mobile, but to me it seems none of the three have achievements

+1. greedy devs

It's actually much, much, much worse, as everything they could do wrong, they did.
It's like they put extra effort in fucking up everything they could. Quoting PC Gaming Wiki:

Based off the broken, and infamously worse mobile ports of the game

...PC ports of ~10 years old mobile ports of PC ports of PS2 ports... we're already off to a great start.

...alongside new censors and modification to the original game release.

Because the most important thing in a remaster, or in a game in general, is fidelity... to modern censorship standards, that is.

Game textures have been upscaled using AI, resulting in grammar and spelling errors alongside poor quality textures, and the art style no longer fits the modern graphics.

AI is the future... or is it?

It utilizes Unreal Engine 4 for the new visual fidelity, meanwhile using RenderWare for everything else.

Yeah, mixing two engines from two completely different eras is totally gonna work flawlessly, I'm sure of it.

The original release (1.0) features a non-encrypted archive which is the only version to support modding.

Because the most logical thing to do when updating the games 'cause they were utter crap, was obviously to take out the only thing they had actually done right. At least this mishap of theirs means there's a downgrade path available, for all it's worth.

Removed the custom soundtrack (all 3), player skin functionalities (III and VC), and saving statistics (SA) that were in the original version.

Removed this, removed that, removed those... and they still have the guts to call them "definitive" editions.

But hey, credits given where it's due, they did add something that the originals didn't have...
What? Huh, why, everybody's beloved Rockstar Games Launcher, of course!

This year's "worst gaming company" award is gonna be a real tough fight.