What network, writer, showrunner listen to the fans?? Almost in every show, there are some parts od the fandom where ppl complain about everything and hate producer, even much more than xfiles fans hate CC. You sound extremely naive if you think that way. More, FOX would never do more xfiles without CC (they depending on each other) and they only give him money. His company produce the series, employ staff. FOX was enough excited about rankings. For the network only this matter.

If Network don’t listen to fans (they do!), they can also listen to press, they can accept the critics and work to fix the problems raised by both fans, viewers and journalists. They have nothing to win to go against popular opinion. 

I’ve never said Fox should ditch Chris Carter, but maybe that they’ll minimize his role in the writing process. In a world where we have Game of Thrones, Scandal, Grey’s anatomy, Westworld, or Big little lies, they must know that Chris’ way of writing series, without using a bible, purposefully ignoring what fans claim for years, forgetting who and what his characters are and did, and using cliché after cliché about populations, cities, politics and more, can’t make it anymore. So I’m hoping he’ll keep producing, and giving directions, and let others, old writers and fresh blood, do the writing ten times better than he can.