They don't seem to namedrop Kojima, but they adknowledge that various members of the original team have left the franchise years ago and that while there are still some people from said team still working on the franchise, they want to respect the fact they all decided to separate paths and move on while also making sure they are glad with the end result of these new projects.
Also fascinating to see Konami employees and workers in an official video saying stuff such as "we want to keep the legacy of these games strong, so that's why we wanted to revive the franchise and get new audiences into the classics: to hold the legacy strong". Quite ironic after Wario3's post a few days ago about Nintendo defending the idea of not rereleasing old games or emulating them.
