I rode it two weekends ago, and something really struck me during my ride: There were three little kids sitting in the back row; we were in the middle. The entire ride, they were cheering and reciting every single line, from "Decepticons, destroy them!" to "Rookie, they trusted you with this mission?" to "He wants the Allspark? He can have it!" Like, these kids weren't even born when the ride opened, one of them maybe not even when Bumblebee was in theaters, and yet you could tell that this was their ride.
I swear, that sort of concept is the thing constantly being lost every time this interminable discussion comes back around: "I don't like this" doesn't mean "Everyone hates it," and seeing kids having the same kind of joy riding Transformers, to the point they know every beat and line by heart, is such an easy thing to forget, that just because a ride may not appeal to you (and I don't mean "you," Clive, obviously, but the "you" we all know) doesn't change the fact that it means the world to someone else. It really brought me back to when I was a kid, riding Jurassic Park or BTTF or ET a hundred times over, knowing every moment beat by beat, and that's really what it's all about.