ParanoidObsessive posted...
It's not helped by the fact that the appeal of the original movies isn't necessarily replicated. People who fell in love with a story about British kids in an English school archetype which is sort of an odd blend of modern time and the pre-technological past aren't necessarily going to be into a story set in the US in the 1920s and based around a bunch of adults and weird monsters.
Plus because of the nature of serial stories, once you lose the audience with your first or second story (or fail to capture them in the first place) you're unlikely to ever get them back with later movies, even if the later movies improve. So at a certain point you're just better off cutting bait.
There's probably an interesting story in there (and Youtube channels like the SuperCarlinBrothers certainly seem to get a ton of interest out of watching them and trying to figure out/speculate where the story is going), but if no one is all that interested in finding it, it doesn't really help.
Meanwhile, games like Hogwarts Legacy and stuff like the Wizarding World in Universal Studios are more closely replicating the feel of the original story while simultaneously giving the audience the chance to be part of the story, which is probably far more appealing to people who grew up loving Harry Potter (in the same way that people who grew up with Star Wars love the idea of stuff like Galaxy's Edge and Rise of the Resistance at Disney).
I guess they couldn't really do anything other than make up their own story since Rowling really didn't have much story for her book version of it.