I honestly think it falls off a cliff in quality the minute our faithful Captain Oram chooses to trust David after eliminating the threat, if he and Daniels teamed up against the remaining one on the Cargo Lift, suddenly the finale becomes a much more appealing premise with them finally putting aside their differences to accomplish a goal.
This way during that sequence the behaviour of the antagonist serves a consistent purpose, crawling through engines directly, attacking the glass in the way it does, then charging the crane makes much more sense coming from a Neomorph rather than a Praetomorph and also creates a contrast of depicted intelligence when the title being's born later.
Bypassing the requirement for near instant implantation and near instant incubation if, one of our protagonists becomes infected on the planet earlier, then carries it off world later giving us the pivotal Alien Covenant near the conclusion with the birth of the first one.
