According to Tomino, the movie series was created to fix some of the problems he identified in the Zeta TV series and to bring the 20-year-old series into a 21st-century context for the new generation now experiencing the increasingly commercialized series such as Mobile Suit Gundam SEED.

The problems? Lack of BEAM CONFUSE

Tomino would be a liar if he said that. He probably deliberately sabotaged the whole thing knowing him.