In my eyes they've wrecked the franchise from 6 onwards possibly from 5.
The remakes I found were rather easy and very short heck I did a speed run on the 3rd completing it in 1 hour 2 minutes.
There's characters missing and not seen for for quite some time well Rebecca Chambers had her own game with resi 0 but Barry he was in the first and if you completed the original 3rd a certain way you see him for a split second at the end but resi 8 just seems to try copying other horror games that out and I can't see them going back to basics.