Because fan entitlement is a motherf*cker, that's why.
That being said, I think the first three films set such a high standard that a fourth (especially one coming almost twenty years later) was going to have to work really hard to match that standard and it not only didn't (couldn't?) do that but what it did do resulted in an especially annoying drop in quality - the reason "nuke the fridge" became a thing is because it was just too implausible even by the series' already rather loose stand that people hated it (and there were various other similarly nonsensical moments to only worsen people's perception of the whole thing).
That being said, I think the first three films set such a high standard that a fourth (especially one coming almost twenty years later) was going to have to work really hard to match that standard and it not only didn't (couldn't?) do that but what it did do resulted in an especially annoying drop in quality - the reason "nuke the fridge" became a thing is because it was just too implausible even by the series' already rather loose stand that people hated it (and there were various other similarly nonsensical moments to only worsen people's perception of the whole thing).
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I really just want you all angry and confused the whole time.
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