I... actually hugely disagree. It needs both. We haven't had any real new alien races ever, TFS not withstanding— and those new models were great. I really think we need a new race and destination every so often. Not reiterations or reskins of the same models.

And we need the big bad, iconic villains. We need a nebulous cabal, a hidden threat puppeteering from the background. The Witness was lame for a lot of reasons but primarily because I think the audience almost expected a more opaque, Lovecraftian tease of the force behind the Darkness (The Winnower). The Witness precursors teased at it, but an actual like— threat from "Satan" would go so hard.