Mate, it's simple mathematics. Resident Evil 4 was nothing but a non scary and repetitive rip-off of Call of Duty. That trend continued with 5 and 6, and to an extent, most of the spin off titles were the same. They tried to make 6 like 2 with zombies being back in the series, and they failed. 7 was made to get on the P.T. bandwagon, and like I said, it is an okay horror game in its own right. It's just not a good Resident Evil game.
Because Konami had all these issues and had to cancel Silent Hills, Capcom decided just to pick up where they left off. They won't admit to that. Why would a Triple A development company own up to that?
Now they are only doing remakes because that's apparently what the lore wants. And some users here who don't like the story or stopped caring about the plot years ago clearly just like these games as games, so I don't get how they can say they are real fans.