It's a shame people were too stupid to get behind it. Halloween could have been this epic series of movies but no, they just had to go back to Michael and drag out the same shit over and over.
There was also a time when Friday the 13th was supposed to be different stories but the studio backed out because it was safer to just have Jason killing campers each time.
No, I understand why people were put off by it. You had two movies featuring Michael Myers, and then suddenly a movie with the same title but nothing at all to do with him. If they'd tried the anthology idea instead of making Halloween 2 I think it could have worked, but with the sequel already being present, there was too much of an expectation built up.