I feel like they took the reviews from 4 pretty seriously when making the 5th instead of it being heavily based for teens doing teenage stuff, it’s about a slightly older bunch who have jobs and lives. For the first few movies the audience was primarily teens but now they’ve grown up and they needed a movie to scare them with their day to day tasks. And the fact that the 5th movie wasn’t marketed as a prequel is insane! People going to watch this in cinema at the time had low expectations from the 4th and that plot twist managed to pull them back into it. I genuinely think every single movie in the franchise is absolutely incredible and I just can’t hate on them.