Context matters.
This game had a lot of wild bullshyt around its development. Namco had it so fukked up that Nintendo had to throw the whole project in the bushes and start over with Retro. They made sure people knew it was going to be faithful to the Prime Trilogy experience.
The new gameplay elements can wait, the point of intrigue was the story.
People always gotta find some weird nonsensical bullshyt to complain about with Metroid.
When Dread got announced, people bytched about it being 2D. Now it's because "It looks like a Gamecube game"
Compare Metroid Prime Remastered to the upscaled GC version if y'all are that blind. It's the fukking Switch, what did you expect? 4K?