Yeah, Team Ridley here too. Ridley Scott is a legend, but he needs a smaller budget.
Spielberg once said of Jaws that if he had made the movie today, he would have ruined it with too much CGI and shown the shark too much. If you see the shark coming up behind the character, it's not scary. Or, at the very least, it's half as scary because the tension isn't as palpable. If you see the person just get pulled underwater, it's terrifying because it's sudden. Now, compare that to Alien and Covenant. In Alien, you never see the Xeno actually kill Lambert, but you hear it over the radio. It is stone cold terrifying to hear it kill her, because you don't see it. Covenant had the Xeno out in the open sprinting across the ground like a large jungle cat. We saw the CGI shark. It's gloriously shot and excellent in its execution, but it's not scary as seeing it just appear behind you, or seeing Lope suddenly yanked into an air conditioning duct out of nowhere. The scariest moment of Covenant to me personally was when Rosenberg suddenly notices the Neomorph standing right behind her, because it's sudden. It's. Right. There. And you know she's dead. There's no escaping it. That is classic Alien.
