It was going to happen no matter what direction they went in. The internet is a big place, and in a forum where people share their opinion of what you're going to do, any idea, regardless of what it is, is going to bother a sizable enough number of people to provoke a reaction.
As for me, I don't care. I wasn't ever going to be invested in the SP of a post-trilogy sequel, so it would be irrelevant to me what they do. When it comes out, I'll either like it, or I won't, and I doubt any information that I have now is going to be any kind of predictor of how I'll feel in 2 years.