Metroid Dread not dead?

Today's release could shine the light of hope on a seemingly forgotten Metroid hopeful.

Scanning a particular panel in-game reveals the following message:

"Experiment status report update: Metroid project 'Dread' is nearing the final stages of completion."

One would hope that Retro isn't screwing with us. We need all the Metroid we can get, since not all of us a symbiotic with Mario and Link.