Thats PR speak that is what the company wanted him to do and even Kojima fucked up with MGS2 so they have a pass in my book"With Invisible War, the primary motivation was to make the game more accessible. We wanted to reach even more people. The first game, it was pretty hardcore. We were making a game for ourselves... if the shooting is too hard for you don't shoot, try something else. If the sneaking is too hard for you don't sneak, try something else. And I always felt that was a really mainstream idea. In Invisible War, we really wanted the player to be more important than the story."
-Warren Spector
Here they will probably kickstart the game and cator to their core audience instead of trying to dumb shit up to sell out
I mean the guy was teaching classes ffs he will probably see the error of his ways and honestly how much would you need to try to fuck up a new System Shock? You have your core concepts, audiologs, shogan (and her original voice actress) all you need to do is update the interphase a bit, set the game in a space ship station mininh colony or whatever and you are pretty much set
Even if he is just a headline for the kickstarter this is pretty much a good thing