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I would prefer someone with a respect for continuity....

Even the people I used to have heated debates with in the past on the old mailing lists would be better creative directors for Robotech, as they actually had respect for the product, and were at best uing different interpretations of the evidence presented - not totally rewriting whole sections in a manner completely inconsistant with it.

This isn't like BSG, where the series has been totally reimagined into a different (and in many ways, superior) story off the same primary plot and character names.

This isn't Enterprise, where better FX and going with the post-ST-IV/TNG version of Earth history (more than anything) had fans screaming foul at what was in reality a VERY good series (well, minus some of the time war episodes), as Berman & their predecessors had to deal with the retcon from the 1980s to allow Earth to not be the bloodbath at the end of the 20th century (as history had passed it by) and the similar realization that even a generation ship wasn't going to get Cochrane to Alpha Centauri in time to invent the warp drive there (having there being transplanted humans was an RPG, novel or other outside-canon story initially, as when one looks at it, if there were such transplants so close to Earth, we'd discovered them a lot earlier, and Kirk & company wouldn't have been so surprised by all the blatantly Terran Human offshoots scattered in their missions). Then you have Gene's silly will provisions that hamstrung attempts to make post-Dominion-war series.

No, the problem with the current state of Robotech is that the current creative team is radically changing parts of the original series (the physical series, in many cases via edits and additions) in ways that cannot work, then insisting that they were ALWAYS meant this way despite 20 years of evidence to the contrary (including stuff released on the bonus DVDs with the Boxed sets, including the later boxed sets of the mutilated "special editions"!). They then VOID the entire basis of the last third of the series, totally rewriting the end of the series into something that CANNOT work (as well as editing out the majority of the cast). Along the way, they fire every person that tries to tell them that it isn't gonna work, after getting what elements they can from them that they can twist to fit their flawed paradigm. There are several points that, if you use the current official timeline, that the series would have ENDED in total character kill (and therefore, total population kill) situations had they occurred the way the current team says, long before the Invid arrival, because of changes in time/location. I've not gone recently to check, but at one time they had Rick, Minmei and Kyle take off from Japan in one episode, and the next episode with their entering Kyle's parents' restaurant with him after landing occuring weeks/months later!