That's the thing, we all want to like the Transformers movies. The complaints that I mainly see aren't just "Ruined Forever!!!" from people who won't cut the studio any slack to re-invent their treasured childhood memories. They're about disappointment at the fact that we go in really wanting to give it a chance and wanting it to succeed. That's why we keep watching them, hoping.
We want to like the movies, but Bay just keeps making it so damned hard for us to do.
The most frustrating thing though, is that you watch these other action franchises and you see that it doesn't have to be this way.