Alien 3: The Dog Alien Was Actually... a Good Thing?

Okay, so I know Alien³ gets a lot of hate. Like, A LOT. And yeah, killing off Hicks and Newt in the first five minutes was… a choice. A terrible one. But hear me out because I've been rewatching it (again) and I think the dog alien (or ox alien, depending on your version, lol) is actually kinda brilliant in the context of the story. Think about it. The whole idea of the Alien franchise is that these creatures adapt to their host, right? They become a twisted reflection. So, on Fiorina 161, a planet full of violent, religiously zealous prisoners, what's the perfect host? An animal. The dog's (or ox's) instincts are simplified – kill, survive, replicate. It strips away a lot of the human nuances we saw in previous facehuggings (idk if facehuggings have nuances but go with it). The creature is just pure, unadulterated, primal threat. It's the perfect embodiment of the planet's environment. I think a lot of the criticism comes from how different it is, visually, from the other aliens. Which, fair. But the frantic, almost feral movement of it, the way it scuttles and snarls, feels so much more terrifying than a slow-moving, humanoid Xenomorph in some ways. Plus, that POV shot from the dogalien in the tunnels?!?! Still gives me chills. It highlights the claustrophobia and the hunted feeling Ripley has. Maybe I'm reaching, maybe I'm just trying really hard to find something to like about a movie that brutally murdered two of my favorite characters, but I honestly think the dog/ox alien is a really clever, albeit underappreciated, piece of Alien lore. What do you guys think? Am I completely off base here?