Seriously, they could make ultra magnus and cyclonus, for all I care.
Any progress will be ruined by some useless plot angle regarding some over-the-top stereotypical minority character as "comic relief".
Or maybe we can have one of these new and interesting Transformer characters take a dump on someone in this movie.
Or maybe we can have the constructicons in the movie for five minutes before some really brave army guy jumps off of high building, pops his parachute, and kills him by shooting him with a slingshot and a grenade.
See, they don't need any hollywood writers, we can come up with a $h!TTy script all on our own!