PERFECTLY said! Well, because I am a romantic fool, I still rate the original Blade Runner just a tiny bit higher (after all, it was the "mother" of Blade Runner 2049), but visually speaking (effects, cinematography - not that it matters to me, but it won Oscar for both categories - the incredibly cool in a dark way dystopia Denis created) is superior. I mean one was shot in the late 2010's and the other in the early 1980's.
And EXACTLY! Just like Blade Runner (1982), this film was another philosophical manifesto; not just another film. The existential questions both films BEAUTIFULLY raise are the same questions some of the greatest thinkers in history (Socrates, Nietzsche, Tesla and Shakespeare among others) have failed to answer with confidence. Of course, Ridley Scott and Denis don't give any certain answers either, but they make you cry (as you admitted too) rivers and rivers seeing these "soulless" replicants becoming more human than human in their desperate attempt to learn: Where do I come from? Why do I have to die? Why do I only have a certain number of years to live? Is there a meaning after all?
PS. HELL YEAH! The Hologram romance scene is the most epic scene I've seen since Tarkovsky's "levitation" scene in Solaris (the original, not the Hollywood crap with George Clooney).