It’s not a remake or anything like that to the original movie, or any of its pre-existing sequels. It’s simply an addition to the franchise.
I can understand forcing all sorts of changes just to appeal to corporate social needs, that is annoying, but the whole “woke” thing has gone far beyond what it originally even meant. People are calling Prey woke because the main character is a Native American woman, and no other reason, because they think any time a woman is cast, and especially so if she isn’t white as snow, it’s done because they want to appeal to SJWs when in reality that’s not the case.
I wasn’t born when Alien originally came out, but I bet people said “oh, god, what is this propaganda? A woman outwitted that thing and all the men acted like idiots? Forced!” because, for some reason, by default women are not allowed to do these things in media (tv, movies, games, books, anime etc) unless it was “done to be progressive”. In complete opposite though, if all the women in Alien had acted idiotically and only the men were outwitting the alien or doing awesome stuff, it’s “oh wow thats so cool”.
That’s the problem here, really. That people think that every or most instances of a POC or woman character being put into something, is done not because the same reasons white people get roles in something, but something ultimately nefarious in its intentions, rather than the creators just having a vision and going with it.
A good example of forced alteration to appeal to that can be found in many places, of course. Wheel of Time, for example, or the atrocious writing of Queen Calanthe from Netflix’s Witcher (guzzling beer, burping, obnoxious, beats every man around her without explanation etc). But I wouldn’t compare that to something like making a black Spider-Man in the form of Miles Morales, or even making Predator’s latest killer a NA woman.
It’s almost like women and minorities are damned if they do, and damned if they don’t. We’re just not allowed to do anything or its woke/bad. 
it’s a great movie, and I recommend it. I also recommend giving one watch through in Comanche! 