When optimus prime sees that michael bay makes transformers look like garbage

Technically, bumblebee is garbage because of all the left over bayverse stuff that led to continuity error after continuity error.

Bumblebee has been confirmed to be a part of it's own continuity and is completely unrelated to the previous Micheal Bay films which is why it ignores most of that universes continuity. The comic that came with special editions of the film that ties it to the micheal bay films was written during earlier drafts of the script and is non canon.

What you call garbage, I call a great way to expand the Transformers community. The fandom shouldn't be limited to just one show (which I never grew up with and grew up with the Bayformers, Transformers Prime, ect.). Plus if you don't like the movies, you don't have to watch or criticize them. That's like eating or buying something you know for a fact that you don't like. #Justsaying

So? I grew up with the Star Wars prequels.

They’re great movies, but people everywhere love to rip on them. And nowhere in my life have I ever responded to criticism of the prequels with “if you don’t like it, just don’t watch them.” Because there are genuine ways to defend those movies with in-film context.

Also, in terms of film-making, less is more. Any generation could enjoy Star Wars. I enjoyed the originals as a kid just like how my parents did.

The idea of there being new entries in the franchise for a “newer generation” or a “more inclusive fan base” is honestly kind of laughable when you think about it. Like I said, anyone can enjoy Star Wars just as anyone can enjoy Transformers.

And this is coming from someone who unironically liked Age of Extinction

Well it's the fact! the fact is that age of extinction and the last knight gets rid of one of the best movie characters ever seen in the transformers trilogy, sam witwicky

I'm not saying they should just stick to that, or that the BB movie should've never existed, I'm just saying it was "good" but no brainer decision.