I love the 7th. Especially the 2nd Movement.
But the 8th is beautiful too.
Thank You for posting.
The Scherzo is better, but not by much, and of course that's a matter of taste, but when you're a music professor you can lean on your taste 😎 .
In any case, the Allegretto has been the most popular movement of the 7th since its inception. When I was studying music critics in college about a half century ago, I remember an article in the Atheneum that was a review of the premiere of the 7th in London, where the critic looked down his nose at "the dilettanti," meaning the audience, because it compelled the orchestra to play the second movement twice.