GitS had none of the philosophy that drove the 1995 film & SAC series. Just a collection of live action reshoots of the anime.
Also there's a pretty clear anti-war/anti military industrial complex message in the new Ghost which I'm a big fan of. International corporatism vs. sovereign nations. It's soooo good.
Yeah I could see how it'd be really easy to get distracted by just making comparisons to the original anime. I had the same problem with the LOTR movies.