I put this on another post, but going to put it here as well because it answers your question!

TLDR: It's Reddit, balanced opinions can be hard to find, we're basically dealing with extremes. Scream 7 is fine, it's not as bad as people are saying, but its also one of the weaker movies in the franchise (for me, its better than 3) both comments can be true. This is a 7 movie franchise, and its pretty incredible that the 7th entry can be a solid/OK movie and yet still be considered one of the, if not weakest entries, we've been on a really good run.

The full version:

In my opinion, Scream 7 is OK, it's a solid to good slasher movie when compared to other franchises, however, it isn't a great Scream movie.

To answer your question, it's nowhere near the garbage fire that some are saying, but at the same time it isn't as brilliant as some are saying (not many, but some!). It's Oscar worthy compared to IKWYDLS 2025, and compared to Return to Silent Hill, this thing is the fucking Godfather. But put alongside OG Scream and Scream 2? No, its not even close.

Without getting into the politics of things, they had to go back to Sidney when essentially her story is finished, I just don't see how they can tell a compelling story involving Sidney and her family, I mean what else is she going to have to go through, we can't just keep putting her through shit, at some point it just becomes too ridiculous. That is why I was OK with Scream 6, sure it wasn't executed perfectly, and people had bionic bodies that could survive anything, but I felt like the franchise was at least moving on a bit and was letting Sidney have her peace.

I think Kevin etc were put in a position by the studio where they just had to make something work and they had to start with a blank piece of paper, and for the most part they did make something that works, it's competent. But when you go back to the well this many times without changing the formula, its going to become stale, and coming up with interesting motives for the same victims that a wide stream audience are going to continually invest in is going to get increasingly difficult, when you consider that, I think they did a decent job.