1: I'm not completly serious, which I admitted.
2:I'm not saying that the franchise is intellectually bankrupt.
I'm saying that a franchise based on deconstructing, reconstructing, and paying homage to various types of movies, with a different set of tropes to play with each time, only has o many ways it can go forward.
There are always plenty of stories to tell. But not every story fits the premise of any given series.