Until late last year, the only Macross series I hadn't watched was Macross 7. I thought the entire focus on Music wouldn't pay off. Finally I decided to watch it, and it wasn't as bad as I thought. As for Delta, I think it builds upon a lot of the concepts from that series, and I can't help but to think of Walküre as an evolution of the Jamming Birds idea. Having been on Japan a few months ago and experienced the whole idol group phenomenon there, I kind of had an idea of what was to come. And I'm not really a fan of the way where Delta seems to be going, but after watching the first episode, I think I can live with it.
To me, what happens with the Macross series is similar to what happens with Windows releases: it has it's ups and downs:
Windows 98 (excellent), Windows Millenium (terrible), Windows XP (very good), Windows Vista (a disaster!), Windows 7 (good), Windows 8 (a joke), Windows 10 (surprisingly good)
In my opinion, SDF Macross is one of the best series of all time, then I really like Macross Plus, and I don't know why I loved Frontier so much; but then I think Macross II was poor in almost every aspect, Macross 7 was just average, and there is Zero... Zero had impressive animation for it's time, but it lacked character development (again, in my opinion)
Given all that, I think my expectations were particularly low for the Delta Pilot, but it had some good action sequences, I liked the Regult-Queadlunn merge, and I think it may end up being a fun show to watch at the very least.
Expecting something as SDF Macross these days is really naive, but if the new series manages to entertain, then count me in. In the end, TV is just supposed to be entertainment.