Yeah, I could see how Stockholm Syndrome could be a thing here. He doesn’t realize the level of debate and criticism and dissection that this community has reached, and so he’s trapped. On one hand, he has all of these great Bionicle ideas inside of his head that are begging to be created, and on the other hand those ideas are being held hostage by the attitudes of the fan community and Lego’s financial quandary.
Said quandary is that the Bionicle fanbase is big enough to shout for Bionicle’s return, but not big enough to be profitable for a huge company like Lego.
Because this is the Bionicle fan community and he slapped the Bionicle logo on it. 
Now if old Faber was trying to make a new story series that wasn’t Rebel Nature or Bionicle, maybe I’d pay it some passing attention. But I didn’t come here for some other movement - I really don’t care for environmentalism.
Bionicle is the story series that told a young abuse victim - me - that I could be powerful. It taught me that boys have feelings and weaknesses and that they aren’t faceless enemies, which was two lessons I badly needed to learn. Now you can argue the fact that I had to learn both of those lessons from a children’s toyline is pathetic. It is pathetic, but the fact is that Bionicle means a lot to me, in the way that Rebel Nature or whatever else doesn’t. Now if you’re into environmentalism and like Faber’s new direction? Props to you. But I came here for 6 Toa fighting bad guys and having feelings, so Legally Distinct Bionicle Rebel-Nature-mix just doesn’t appeal to me.
And frankly, I’ve read so many stories with elemental powers at this point, wielded by humans or otherwise, and have enjoyed many of them. I’m just really really tired of fantasy elemental power stories with obvious political agendas behind them. If I wanted that, I’d go back to studying children’s literature at the university. Bionicle isn’t that, so it has more of an appeal.
Now Faber does have some storytelling credentials in my mind - he made the brilliant concept behind Bionicle, but Advance and Faber also made that cringe-worthy Invasion From Below episode in Hero Factory. I’m wondering whether he just got lucky (or unlucky, in the case of that awful tumor) and thus isn’t as sharp a storyteller as he might appear. This would go back into the huge forest of storyline quality debate that we have had in the Bionicle fandom ever since G1 ended. If his work is low-quality, I’m not inclined to trust it. It depends on what writer he gets for his story. I’m not sure I trust him off the chain.