Lots of people consider RE4 to be the best in the series, myself included.
That's nice. What does that have to do with anything I said?
To say it 'isn't RE' is kind of ridiculous.
Resident Evil 1 > survival horror
Resident Evil 2 > survival horror
Resident Evil 3 > survival horror
Resident Evil 0 > survival horror
Resident Evil 1 remake > still survival horror
Resident Evil CV > survival horror
Resident Evil 4 > less survival horror
*Magic time where the 360 becomes overly popular with immature brat kids*
Resident Evil 5 > derp console shooter, traces of survival horror, no puzzles
Resident Evil Racoon City > straight derp console shooter
Resident Evil 6 > Jesus fucking christ
Yeah, "kind of ridiculous". I'm almost convinced NeoGAF, for the majority, consists of kids who grew up on streamlined accessible crap. I don't care what you've played.
Ask any RE fan how Resident Evil started out for all of the games above and you'll get a description that is so fucking far away from what they're doing to the series now.