It feels so good knowing that Cregger's movie will always be "the reboot" and nobody will ever mistake it for the one and only Andersonverse.

Resident Evil follows the Star Wars model.
Films 1, 2, and 3 are directed by different people each time. Then the original director comes back to the director's chair of his experimental new trilogy that is super different to the ones before it. Just like Lucas and his SW prequels.