Has he completely ignored what people really thought?
"mixed reaction" - Critics may have loved it. But people didn't.
And in reference to what people didn't like, hmm, how about the fact that it didn't make sense. Inventing and showing a new type of Xenomorph at the end wasn't necessary. I know a lot of people liked that, but I didn't.
People didn't like the film because it didn't make sense, at all.