Beast Machines had almost no redeeming qualities iirc. It was boring, directionless and they pretty much ruined all the characters outright. I remember being extremely disappointed by it despite initially being amped that they were making a new series and continuation from Beast Wars.
It's like those projects where no one in the original team was involved at all but they got their blessing to use the IP or something. Don't know if that's true but it felt like it.