If I were to compare both games to the allegory of cookies, the original RE2 are the freshly baked, moist, melt in your mouth cookies that hits you right in your comfort food spot. RE2 the 2019 recipe is on the surface the same recipe, but half of the ingredients are missing, the sugar is replaced with salt, it was taken out of the oven halfway through, and the few ingredients that were carried over from the original recipe like the chocolate chips are from the generic value brand.
So all in all, RE2 the original is better.