If it was announced that the next alien movie would have a man as the lead people would complain about breaking what the series is about the same way. Then again we all know that the true main character of the alien prequels is David, all I could think while I watched Covenant last time was how much it felt like Ridley loved David. And the female "leads" are just there to get him off in a weird way.
Regardless its more about how its executed, I liked Isabelle in Predators, wouldn't have minded if she had sniped a Predator with a headshot, might have preffered such death for a Predator than a sword slash. But Disney developed a history making poor female characters that just break all the rules of the established universe cus the plot they want to push demands them to be that good.
More importantly after PHG brough m'boy Dutch back I really wanted a movie set on 2025 with Dutch kicking ass while taking Predator juice to make gains, the reception over Dutch's return was great, so many commented that was what the sequels should have been about and now... its gone I guess.