"Yet it already feels tainted, like we’ll look back on Stellar Blade as a pawn in this fruitless battle for conventionally attractive women in video games and a lack of censorship that proves, once and for all, that the gamers have won."
If you're wondering why the author of this article is so angry about "conventional beauty standards for women" that's because he's a man: https://i.imgur.com/IZxpq5q.jpeg
This might be the one thing they're not wrong about. It's sad that we've gotten to the point where something as inoffensive as Stellar Blade would even be expected to be censored. That isn't a victory it's just not another loss.
THIS is the actual victory. We saw it with Palworld too. Devs who are happy to make games for the actual audience, aren't ashamed of it, and are willing to lean into it.
Anyone who declares the whole fight over is only trying to placate gamers into being apathetic.