Feel free to pass the baton to new experiences, characters and adventures once Neill's film gets out there.
The general moviegoing audience will go nuts when they see Ripley. The key is making Newt a great, young, strong female warrior a'la Rey. You'd almost be reinventing the character because the last time we saw her was as a child.
I picture her as a lone wolf, sort of a young T2 Sarah. She wanted a world without machines, I can picture an adult Newt saying she wants "a world without the aliens".
So much tantalizing stuff is missing that as a fan I want to see. That concept piece of Ripley and Hicks confronting the military? That's the kind of stuff we should've experienced in '92! That's beautiful. Even Ripley in the xeno suit is fresh and amazing and actually inevitable in a way? Figuratively becoming the xeno instead of literally having the DNA (ahem A:R) is awesome.
Alien 3 was regression. Haunted house. Vietnam war. Back to haunted house? Alien 3 was aching to be a big, sci-fi action-horror bonanza with even some political undertones.