I think they knew what the major reaction was going to be and shelved it."Give us X-men and FF" like some of their last venues were exactly good. nikkas will lose their minds if either of those comic films aren't spectacular.
Fantastic four is probably gonna suck, because the characters themselves aren't that good. Reed Richards is like the most intelligent humanoid in all of comics in history, but at the end of the day, he's plasticman with a PhD. Johnny the human torch has a more inconsistent identity in comics than his lover ice man, and the thing is struggle hulk.
A good writer can do good things in comics with them because you don't need to tell their farkakte old tyme "gamma waves" origin, but I can't see it working in this era of comic movies.
Personally, i think they're the most overrated IP in all of comics.