That and humanizing the atmosphere and making it less lonely is pretty much missing the point.
Maybe I'm being optimistic, but I don't think they can fuck that aspect up much worse than Corruption already did. Then again, they've already shown a whole squad of Feddy tag-alongs, so who knows.
Having said that, I don't think maintaining the atmosphere of isolation
necessarily requires Samus to be literally all by herself. I mean, look at Alien. The Nostromo was full of people; didn't change the fact that they were on their own in the depths of space a billion miles from anyone who could possibly help them. The Thing is another great example. In fact, maybe the facility surrounded by snow that we see in the trailer is like the Antarctic outpost, and it gets infiltrated by some kind of freaky organism. Maybe instead of continuing to plunder from the increasingly shitty Alien series they're switching to The Thing...
...oh...oh god
...uh... pardon me. Anyway, for the record, I thought Fusion's storytelling was simultaneously its best and worst feature, so I expect Other M to be similarly conflicted. Sakamoto hasn't made a Metroid that I've disliked yet, so I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.