I've been wanting to say this for bit. These recent predator adaptions sound awfully similar to a obscure scifi novel series called "Koban". The big bads of the series are re-imaged Predators but the author lowkey mocks how incompetent the his Predators are....how they just are warrior species that wiped out a more technically advanced, took their tech and started hunting other species for fun. In Koban, the alien barely know how to use their tech effectively.
Alot of these recent Predator stories almost mimic the Koban plot points. The battle world grom predators, humans being able to understand the predators tech better than the predators, predators keeping their prey alive to sick on other predators or for amusement. Predators who do it for the love of the game vs predators who are religious zealots.