The women were not the problem for 2016 Ghostbusters IMO.
It was the writing, the directing, and the casting.
The comedy writing was hit and miss, the latter being the more prominent. I felt like I was watching a Kindergarten Cop deleted scene where they got 4 kids to stand in front of the class and tell jokes. It was abysmal. That is not the fault of the gender of the main characters or the actresses involved, they did what they could with the mess in front of them.
The directing was poor. Watching most scenes felt like Paul Feig had a movie set and threw a cast in there and said "there's no script, just improvise and we'll cut it all together in post". I've watched cutscenes of video games stitched together as a 'movie' that have been more coherent.
Then there's the casting. Some members of the original cast returned, but as totally different characters (which is ridiculous IMO, but considering how crap the movie was, it was probably for the best that they were different characters). Rick Moranis must have the power of foresight, because he turned it down. I don't blame him. What an awful movie to potentially revive his acting career from. He's holding out for better, and so am I, dammit!
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