Honestly, if they’d just lean into something like the decrepit amusement park finale from TCM2 instead of just “here’s the gas station again, here’s the house again, here’s a meat locker again, etc.,” I’d be much happier. That amusement park setting alone would be enough to make it stand out for me in terms of feeling like they’re doing something different with the IP. (And even when Chop Top was in the 2016 maze, acknowledging TCM2, it still pivoted back to using the original movie’s imagery by the end.)
At least Halloween has tried covering a few different movies in the franchise and mixing it up, but when it comes to TCM, continuing to go back to the well of the original movie and pretty much only the original movie at this point when there is so much opportunity right there to spice it up is what I find most disappointing.