Some others included in the nominations are essential workers, Late-night host Trevor Noah, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and tennis star Naomi Osaka to name a few.

The only one that even comes close to meeting the criteria of "the person or group of people who had the greatest influence on events in 2020 – whether for better or worse" would be essential workers, and that would basically be like thanking the ground for not crumbling beneath your feet. What I mean by that is if you decide the person of the year is the millions of people who essentially allow society to function, how can you consider any other single person to be a person of the year after that? Will any singular person have the same affect as the hundreds of thousands of delivery drivers that ensured millions of people would still have access to the food and goods they need to live? That any one person can compare to the millions of cashiers that allowed people to still buy things?

Yes it says it can be "for worse", but do you really think they would have Time's person of the year be a woman and have it be for negative reasons? Honestly I think her inclusion (and Trevor Noah's to a lesser extent) is just to drum up controversy and get attention.