Speaking as a bonafide Geeewunner jerk, I'll go ahead and throw out my dumbass opinions:
I understand why updates to the characters have to be made. Mirage and Wheeljack would hardly be incognito flying down the highway as an F1 and Lancia Stratos. As for the robot modes, it would make no sense to expect all alien machine life to conform to a bipedal humanoid or quadrupedal body type. All these changes are perfectly logical and make total sense. Unfortunately, the designs they are coming up with deviate so far from the characters we came to love, they come off as looking like the designers didn't give a crap and couldn't be bothered with even a simple Google search. "**** the fans, I'm making what I want and I'll screw up any character I please."
Also, the movies have spiraled down the drain of contradictory nonsense that each movie is practically a soft reboot of the previous one. TLK was so damn idiotic I walked away feeling like we all had our intelligence insulted. The whole thing felt like it was put together by a focus group of kindergartners and they swapped out half the group every 10 minutes. That's where I had to walk away.
Much like Disney, Lucasfilm, Marvel, Star Trek, etc., all they seem to be doing is strip-mining the properties with an existing fan base and pumping out garbage with some kind of agenda assuming we'll go see it no matter how bad it gets.
Sorry, but they need my money more than I need their movies. I can spend my money elsewhere.
Rant over.
Carry on.