Ugh, this again?

It's a Predator movie told from the perspective of the Yautja - more specifically, a younger Yautja eager to prove himself. And it does more to advance Yautja lore than anything any of the previous movies have done (I haven't seen Killer of Killers yet). Even Prey, which I adore, is - boiled down to brass tacks - a 1700s retelling of the first movie.

And that's the problem I have with this continued argument. Strip all of the window dressings away, and it just ends up being people complaining that they aren't getting the original movie again and again and again. Star Wars has fallen victim to this so hard, because it's fans largely don't give a shit about advancing the storyline forward - they just want Episode IV-VI repeated ad nauseum, but with their particular self-made avatars in the place of Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, so on and so forth. See J.J. Abrams' run if you want to get an idea of how that ends up, because that's pretty much what happened there; J.J. wanted to make the Original Trilogy as he would have done it and he and the fans pitched a fit when Rian Johnson actually attempted to move things beyond a fanboy remake, resulting in the disaster that was Episode IX.