The studio told the Wachowskis it was going to be made with or without them.

The result was a movie about beloved characters being ripped out of the past unnaturally and turned into something they're not by a program that only cares about his personal benefit at everyone else's expense. Lara reburied the franchise for a time successfully while telling an actually decent story about why it shouldn't exist.

It was a good condemnation of greed killing art, that made itself clear in a lot of ways that it didn't want to be considered part of the same story.