
Just because you CAN keep making them doesn’t mean you SHOULD. The franchise has become so formulaic that even the foreshadowing is predictable. Unless they introduce compelling storylines and characters, it’s just people waiting for their turn to die. Creative deaths don’t necessarily equal good storytelling.
Regardless of the specific character, I think you do need someone who’s in the know for the characters to get information from, cause otherwise they’re not gonna know anything about what’s going on. Sometimes it’s just more entertaining for that role to be filled by some oddball than a Google search