I'm not entirely sure the comparison with an apparent campaign for Elsa to get a girlfriend, which I've never even heard of, to be in relevance of scope to the distaste/hate/other negative emotions some people have towards the new Ghostbusters.
Just feels like the author wanted it to stick it in there to draw some relevance to the underlying context of the thorny issue of one element of the anti-Feig film, instead of what they were aiming for in the 'crowd-demanded' vs 'popular opinion is changing, and movies should, or at least could, try to reflect that without leading to a huge loss in revenue' angle.
Those trailers got so many dislikes not simply because the game looked uninspired to fans, but because the franchise didn't bring out a game more in line with what they expected or hoped for. It became more personal, like the existence of that game was depriving them of a continued franchise or something.
I don't completely disagree with the Metroid comparison (and have not been a fan at all of anything regarding Federation Force that I've seen), but I feel there's different underlying factors insofar as it relates to the Franchise and its continued existence, especially with sales presumably playing a factor into Nintendo's continued development of said franchise.
It's also an off-shoot as opposed to a 'reboot', but that's a different argument.
But like I said, I don't disagree in that what people 'want' and their expectation is playing a role therein, especially as it ties into both the casting choices, and the accompanying different style of comedy Reitman, Akroyd, and Ramis had vs what Feig tends to use, and has shown in trailers.
I felt like the lesbian shipping requests for Avatar Korra were less focused on progressiveness and more focused on the Yuri fappers.
Because there are so many Yuri fappers out there, that the creators felt the best way to end the series (after it'd been pushed out of Nick) was to give them a bisexual avatar as a fanservice reward....as opposed to the reason Konietzko outright says
here
Seems legit.