I don't disagree with anything you pointed out. The reality is that nobody who isn't trans is going to pick alternative pronouns or voice options. For as many people as this "appeased" (give them everything they ask for and they'll think up something later and then complain they didn't get that too), it pissed off 20x more. Why not let the 2% or 0.5% be the ones who have to mod their stuff to make it how they want it. Let them put the work in.

But to some devs it is just type A type B to avoid the shit storm and move on because it's one line of code to change the name and avoid the backlash. Even the last few Monster Hunter games did this, if I remember right.

It just hit me that to be a developer must be a real headache being caught between the volatile gaming community at large and the skinless alphabet community losing their shit about literally anything.

Starfield did suck for the character creator being 100% shit and the fact that it was very deliberately difficult to make a character that appeared caucasian without looking deformed.

But garbage like Last of Us 2 surpasses it by miles, and that's the real depth of forced bullshit we should look out for. Starfield is compromised, but there's some usable meat on the corpse. Dread the day we can't even get that out of a AAA release.