By your logic Halloween 2018 should had made little money but it made a ton even adjusted for inflation only the original made more. I'm not even a huge fan of Halloween 2018 I thought of was OK but I liked a few of the other sequels more but it paid off. I was willing to give up on Transformers than Bumblebee came out and now I'm excited for the franchise.
The only reboot I don't like is Star Trek Discovery because it's rewriting TOS canon but the JJ films I had no issue with and liked 2 out of 3 because they're their own thing in the franchise and at the end of the day I can ignore them heck even Disney Star Wars I ignore and treat Legends as my canon. That's what I don't get why do you care? Just ignore remakes, reboots, and sequels if you dislike them and enjoy what you got before it's what I do if I dislike a new entry.