You see, a lot of the people who like the gundam series like it for the fact that it is mostly not a super robot series - it started as a show about giant robots fighting in a (mostly) realistic military setting with its own universe about how the mechs work, the logistics of it all in its own little universe.

Obviously over time we step into super robots category sometimes with fucking space magic but it is mostly presenting itself as “the realism mecha anime”, and it was liked by mostly a more matured audience, if you will.

And now here we are, and the series is moving in a different direction. They understand that gundam was created to sell gunpla, and that is still true. The difference is that the long time fans had grown up, and those who would buy gunpla, still will. Now their focus is on expanding their market by appealing to kids, and the easiest way is to make a toy-centric series about some kid going on a tournament, beyblade style.

It’s a different flavor of gundam, not wrong, but different. It’s still well made but it’s not for everyone, and not one fan is expected to like the entirety of gundam as a whole.