Apart from the fact that the story to me sounds pretty interesting, there is also the fact that some really cool scenes read pretty horrible on paper.
Like Predator 2: Predator in bathroom with an old lady trying to approach it with a broom... "oh my gosh, granny fights against Predator, this is going to be horrible!!"
Yet in the movie, it's actually a pretty cool and funny scene.
"An elder Predator? What? Will he be in a wheelchair with grey dreadlocks and stuff?"
The thing is, you can pretty much shittalk anything as long you have seen nothing of it.
The Predator world is largely unexplored, who says there aren't other clans who experiment with their bodys and trying to modify themselves to be the ultimate hunters? Or maybe even a single bad-blood kind of Predator, who's an outlaw. A Predator 2.0 version could bring something new and interesting to the table. We had the same conversations when Predators came along, and while i still like the classic ones better, the designs weren't bad, and those were meant to be a different kind of species altogether.
No Predator has ever looked the same since the original and there are really interesting design choices who all work, if the 2.0 version is an excuse for them to really go nuts on the design (in a good way) then why not.
NECA already likes the designs, sure they want to sell the damn things, but they openly explained their opinions on the AvP Predators for example (they didn't even wanted to do them, as they didn't like them), so to me that's an indication that they are at least heading into the right direction.