You have one thing wrong here. It's not comment sections full of demands for representation that drives this crap. It's the developers. At least 1/3 of designers, artists, and engineers are dyed in the wool progressives, another third don't care, and the final third is mostly cowardly people trying to keep their heads down and survive. The comments are sometimes used as an excuse to do what the Progressive developers already wanted, but it's never a cause, just a tool to justify the desired effect.
You have one thing wrong here. It's not comment sections full of demands for representation that drives this crap. It's the developers. At least 1/3 of designers, artists, and engineers are dyed in the wool progressives, another third don't care, and the final third is mostly cowardly people trying to keep their heads down and survive. The comments are sometimes used as an excuse to do what the Progressive developers already wanted, but it's never a cause, just a tool to justify the desired effect.