They are turned into Cloverfield movies after the fact, instead of just writing a Cloverfield movie from the start.
The Cloverfield Paradox did not start out as a Cloverfield movie.
All that Cloverfield stuff was added after the fact, and therein lies the problem with these Cloverfield pseudo-sequels.
Supposedly, the original story had nothing to do with “the Cloverfield Paradox,” which was the name of the scientific phenomenon of monsters, demons, and beasts from the sea arriving after tampering with the boundaries of space-time.