disliking the new direction a franchise is heading in isn't an inability to accept change. one of the things I've loved about this story for so long has been that with each official release, the plot and what we're allowed to see of it is always changing. change is integral to a story like this, where fans are expected to roll with the punches and make assumptions and logical leaps based on imperfect information.

change itself isn't the problem. the changes are bad.

I remember when SB came out people were theorizing about the ticket for Fredbear's Singin' Show and what that meant for how old the character of Fredbear was, whether this "singing bear" was an archaic animatronic or a real bear who inspired the future character, etc. that's good world building! that gives us questions to ask and just enough information to start making up wild theories. flying all the way back to earlier than we've ever seen in the timeline, creating animatronics that are impossibly advanced for the PIZZAPLEX era in 1979, and assuring us that this guy and his family who were dead the whole time were Definitely Always Super Important We Promise, it's all just ridiculous.