Unlike the anime's internal, existential exploration of the soul, this version focuses on a more conventional Hollywood "origin story" and "revenge plot".
However, the "better" version people search for usually implies a desire to fix what was broken. The film is a visual feast served on a dirty plate. The 1995 anime was a meditation on the nature of the soul (the "ghost") in a technological world. It was philosophical, cold, and distant. The 2017 version, in an attempt to appeal to a mass audience, stripped away the philosophy and replaced it with a generic revenge origin story. It turned a complex cyborg into a generic Hollywood action hero with amnesia. ghost in the shell 2017 filmyzilla better