I think this crap is so dumb. I fought with some folk on tumblr a few years back about this. It's Godzilla, its not a good Godzilla (well the Animated version is fine) but it's still a Godzilla.
It's this weird need to distance themselves. It's the same as people getting angry about remakes or adapting books. Who cares if they screw up? It's not like the 22 previous films disappeared in May of 1998. We should all be over this by now.