The oh fukk factor was still there. Take the previous Michael from Halloween 6 for example, he had a creepiness to him and was intimidating.
That's the Michael I felt Loomis was talking about. H20 never captured that.
It’s better to me just from a construction standpoint as a flick. I haven’t been afraid of Michael since I was a kid and making him related to Laurie didn’t help. Chasing the strodes didn’t help either. So the mask was indifferent to me at that point. What mattered was story and character and writing and trying to get back to some semblance of a respectable franchise after the mess that was 5 and 6