They would never be able to prove it was intentional, and they wouldn’t be able to prevent it without fundamentally altering the game for the worse.

If they did relent, this is precisely what would happen. I believe there was something similar happening in Overwatch, where players getting killed playing as one of the rainbow freak characters repeatedly would claim they were being targeted for harassment. It creates a whole new can of worms where the devs then have to treat the alphabet mafia as a protected class in the game.

As much as it would be funny to see anyone with a rainbow cape getting gunned down mercilessly by teammates, anyone who has seen how this usually plays out knows that once the knee bends an inch they have to go all the way down, and that typically means banning players and putting in restrictions to protect faggotry at all costs. And yes, they will likely end up having to break their game to protect faggots, the way Neil Druckmann did with TLOU2, disabling the player's ability to shoot any of the Tiny Hat Commission's paraphernalia in the game.