Gearbox's ACM, as with the Earth War comic before it, the William Gibson comic after it, served one good purpose, as a obvious warning.
The Terminator once determined whether Aliens ultimately got the greenlight or not. I guarantee Tim Miller's Terminator determined the fate of Neill Blomkamp's Alien. Does this appear at all familiar?
A attempt at a franchise revival with the endorsement of James Cameron onboard with the writing but not Directing himself. With the lead actress returning for the first time in twenty years. With a number of ideas from the past "failed" films mashed up to create a nostalgic majority surface level reading retread finale of the first two "successful" films. Whilst simultaneously declaring the rest of the films as invalid as it is the one true valid conclusion. That's also not truly a conclusion as it attempts to pass the torch to a considerably younger heroine.
Do change my mind.