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For reference, the movies and shows that have come out are:

Rescue Bots seasons 2-4
Age of Extinction
Robots in Disguise
Combiner Wars
The Last Knight
Titans Return
Bumblebee
Power of the Primes
Cyberverse
Rescue Bots Academy
War for Cybertron Trilogy
BotBots
Earthspark
Rise of the Beasts

Of the one's I've seen, my ranking would be:

Bumblebee
Earthspark
Rise of the Beasts
War for Cybertron Trilogy
Robots in Disguise
Age of Extinction

TF media has been going downhill in quality storytelling in the lat 10 years, at least out of what I've seen.

Here's my list:

7. Rise of the Beasts
6. The Prime Wars Trilogy
5. Cyberverse
4. The Last Knight
3. WFC Trilogy
2. Bumblebee
1. Age of Extinction

If comics were included, those 7 would follow my top 3, Unicron (3rd), RiD/Optimus Prime (2nd), and MTMTE/Lost Light (1st).

Bumblebee was best overall for me. They got the balance right. I liked Shatter, who was 'female-type' but still Decepticon to the core, mostly competent and happy in her psychopathy.

The other movies had great SFX but average storytelling. Seemed like random assembly of popular material. Shame that the final movie with Unicron was shelved (the one after TLK). That could've been a doozy.

Most of the cartoons had good points and bad points, e.g. good action but annoying character traits. I hate the way that they cherry-pick, e.g. include Grimlock but leave out the other Dinobots.

Earthspark was too cootsie-wootsie in places and had transsexuality and pronoun obsession.

I don't seriously watch the stuff for younger kids but the episodes I saw seemed fine.