I like Alien³ and Alien Isolation, The Cold Forge and Into Charybdis, more than I like Aliens myself.
Alex White uses the concepts from the prequels masterfully in their stories, they might not exist without the prequels as they are, Blue Marsalis likely will remain my single favourite character in this franchise.
I indeed also like Fargo and Legion more than Aliens if they are anything to go by I will enjoy Noah Hawley doing Alien.
So for a franchise lots of people are not happy with overall, I could not be more pleased with the way it turned out, could stuff be better? Sure could!
Alien Resurrection, Prometheus and Alien Covenant, could have each turned out truly great but... I will take interesting, absolutely I will take that over competent and bland anyday, see Predators for instance.