The Fantastic Four have always been my second favorite Marvel team behind The New Mutants, but as stated above, there are a number of reasons why Marvel's first team gets no love these days. Certainly the speculation that Disney has directed the Marvel editorial group to downplay their importance within the MU is possible. Any success on the printed/digital page the team might have would benefit FOX Studios over Disney. Films and TV shows are where the money is these days, and with Marvel having sold the rights to FOX pre-Disney, the "House that Mouse Built" has little to gain from a successful Fantastic Four book. Personally, I would hope that Marvel would want all of their properties to be successful including Spider-Man and the X-Men since that would enrich the MU as a whole, but treatment of characters outside the MCU shows otherwise.
I also suspect that this team itself is not the easiest to write. Similar to my beloved Doom Patrol, they are a group of conflicting personalities that can seem out of date. Attempts to update them, as @EvilTyger stated have fallen short and come across as gimmicky. I've always felt they were at their best when the aspects of them being a family were at the forefront of their stories. Perhaps that's too mundane for modern comic readers or maybe it's just been mishandled. Writers want chaos and conflict, not ties of domesticity which is why they bust every couple up every few years. "Happiness is boring" they say, but I don't accept that because real marriage, real families are filled with struggle. The world is full of people who accept those challenges because succeeding as a family is important to them. I cannot fathom why it couldn't also be seen within The Fantastic Four comics and a live-action adaption.
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