Heck, even the story/gameplay progression felt like a copypasta of Fusion: Samus enters a research station as part of a mission for the federation. She then explores multiple sectors housing specific ecosystems of creatures, under the orders of Adam Malkovich, fighting Nightmare and a clone of Ridley in the process. As the plot wraps up, Samus discovers a secret federation lab dedicated to breeding Metroids, and escapes as it self-destructs, and then fights an unexpectedly alive, and evolved Metroid. It turns out that the federation is doing shady stuff, and the game ends as Samus escapes the exploding station.
minus orders of adam and the title monster being the final boss for a change, this is every metroid game ever.
samus enters (planet/station/star system) that conveniently is seperated into a bunch of zones (jungle and nature/lava and caves/ice, ice everywhere/oh look, its underwater/high tech zone where things miraculously didnt break/ancient temple of an ancient race that somehow was at peace with itself and the world, jet still managed to get eradicated usually by their own fault) then fights a bunch of bosses, some of them new (a big bug/pink yello thing/a nest of bugs/the bug queen/theres a shitload of bug bosses in this game/plantbosses/a huge robot here or there) as well as a number of bosses we've already killed in other games (kraid/ridley/nightmare/robot guard drone/seadragon fish thingy/more bugs/a clone of samus thats much stronger than you/enhanced space pirates). while doing that, she receives countless upgrades that are almost always identical, except for when the gameplay doesnt allow for it, like the speed boost or the grabbing of ledges in the prime games and one unique item here or there, like the charged missles or the 2d ice missles for story purposes, to her suit that, in all honesty, should have been destroyed by whomever guarded them so samus couldn't power up over and over. samus then discovers (mother brain being behind everything/mother brain is still alive/its the federations fault this time/oh no metroids are still alive and being experimented on by everyone in the galaxy) and escapes as (planet/station/star system) is wiped clean by (the self destruct mechanism of a suicidal alien race/federal precaution measures) or so it seems. because theres always a clean up crew collecting cells of everything that is remotely memorable so that the series can go on using such adorable creatures like (the exploding bats that home in on you if you get to close/space pirates/bees/bugs of other sorts/lava critters/exploding gas balls/spiky things/lazily flying grapple hook or ice beamable turtles/angry fish/all your favorite bosses/the damn metroids/eventually mother brain again [if prime ever goes on, we will find out the federations super ai computers secretly had a remainder of the mother brain.exe somewhere in them that got activated somewhere during prime 3]/etc. etc.)
the whole series is build upon being able to bring back everything you knew before on a new planet because of cloning/chozo being so advanced and having hidden very specific suit upgrades all over the galaxy/federation wanting unlimited metroid energy even though energy doesnt seem to be of much concern in this world to begin with. and it worked so far.
and if anything, its realistic that the federation has a bunch of these stations out there just waiting to get out of control, because the federation is just as powerhungry and irresponsible as the space pirates they constantly try to imitate.
which is why future metroid games will gladly go back there.