I'm gonna have to call BS on this. In its 21 years of existence, I have never seen REmake referred to as a cash grab, which is as flimsy as calling a sequel to a game a cash grab based on the fact that a company is merely trying to profit off of a popular IP by expanding it. By that logic, everything Capcom does is a cash grab.
Porting RE4 to every console, that's a cash grab. Low effort, cost-effective work, for huge profits. Remaking RE4 from the ground up with a triple A budget after years of development on the other hand... yeah, doesn't really seem so cash grabby to me.
And since when were remakes judged solely on how much new lore was added? Because once again, brushing everything REmake and REmake 4 does that completely transforms the experience under the rug, whether it be through cutting, adding, remixing, or updating, is massively disingenuous.
Yes, RE4 is too faithful in certain regards where I would have personally loved for them to have taken some liberties, but it's also very different in both big and small ways. So much so that even the rabbid RE4 fanboys are crying about how much they cut or how they missed the point of the original game's campy story, etc. etc.
So what they're both fixed camera games or both over the shoulder games. Metroid: Zero Mission is still just a 2D game too. That doesn't make them the same by any stretch. Is making something better no longer a good enough reason to remake it? Especially when they're so outdated and overshadowed by the very games they've inspired.
Resident Evil 4 is a benchmark game, and I've been very vocal around here over the years about how much I disliked various aspects of the game and even gone in depth on different occasions about what I would love to see in a remake that would greatly improve it. Resident Evil 4 remake is as close to that vision as we'll ever get, and at the end of the day, is a game I would rather play over the original as it appeals to my tastes far more than the one we got in 2005 and I know I wasn't droning on about graphics for all these years either.