A little conflicted about this - and I mean the TINIEST bit, since I rarely care about anything like this these days for reasons that have already been mentioned a multitude of times in this thread.
On the one hand I loved pt 1 like everyone else in the world. It was very much "the right film at the right time" and was absolutely one of those cinema-defining moments in our culture, like Pulp Fiction or even Star Wars and such. And still resonating very much today. On the other hand, as with many other people I consider it to be a perfect example of diminishing returns and by the time part 3 came out, to me it already felt like "who actually wants this?" When they announced the newer film a few years ago, it was difficult to even be cautiously optimistic about it. Of course I was bored and it launched on Max, which I had anyway, so it was kind of a fun "this is out of left field" thing that suddenly showed up, and with (very) tempered expectations I watched it when it released.
I.. didn't hate it! Actually, I didn't hate it UNTIL a fair bit into the film (and then, I hated it). Well not hatred, so much as sat through the film going through its motions - but to be frank, the setup of the film was actually rather compelling. And they somehow made the whole meta storyline feel unique and interesting, which surprised me. I got into that mode "ok, where is this going.." but as soon as they started showing lots of clips from the first film, it began feeling excessively gimmicky and then just stumbled from there. Still was some interesting narrative going on, but it felt like they just rushed through a bunch of motions to get to an open-ended conclusion so they could leave the door open for more (of something... rehashing, or just reanimated zombie corpse.. you all know what I am talking about).
Anyway I didn't hate that I saw the film, and it actually got my respect in spite of itself (for the elements of it that I did enjoy). But with news of another bonafide sequel.. well it is more difficult to give them the benefit of the doubt that "something interesting will happen," that is unless they are able to salvage some more of where they were going with the last part (not impossible) and explore more out that way. Can that happen? I feel like we are ripe, culturally, for more exploration of a film that takes a real hard look at the current AI-phobia, "are we living in a simulation?" and all that follows from that. I think the backdrop of the Matrix - as has successfully been proven to me again, in the first quarter or so, of part 4, is very fertile ground for such a story to be examined within. I even feel that some of the people involved in making these films can actually do something compelling with this notion.
So, we'll see. At this point I have learned not to get my hopes up about this sort of thing, but there is something there and I will give it the benefit of the doubt to the point where I'm interested to hear the buzz and eventual hype on the film, which will spell out whether it is a good time or another waste of time, for me. I am not truly sad they are revisiting this, we have that perfect first film which I will always appreciate and they can make as many shit-sequels as they like which I can continuously ignore if need be otherwise. Anyway, let's see how it goes.