>>149180233- because the producer LITERALLY does not understand what a reboot is and kept trying to connect Beeverse to Bayverse
- because, understandably, audiences were wary to see Bumblebee after the shitshows of AoE and TLK, so it made less money. Executives don't understand that there can be an inherent one-movie lag time in franchise reputation when something is changed, because people need to actually SEE the differences before they can let it affect how they attend the NEXT movie. The execs immediately overcorrected in reaction to the low numbers instead of making another Bumblebee-style good movie that people could recognize as another Bumblebee-style good movie, and instead defaulted to a Bay-style slopfest.