Ranma 1/2 never stood a chance
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Its a manga that has a literal gender transition as its main premise and gag, with its main heroine being an angry raging proto-girlboss who beats any man that tries to woo her and has an army of simps chasing her. That's actual premise before any localization gets involved.
It never stood a chance from the moment people were reminded it existed.
bear in mind that Akane got whooped everytime she and Ranma actually faced off. She beat on him all she wanted until he actually fought back at which point he would stomp all over her.
She has the Krillin situation of being better than every normal person and absolutely useless against any actual character in the cast.
Regardless, he takes an incredible amount of abuse from her throughout the entire series without much fighting back, because he usually gets in trouble for doing so. Its slapstick taken way too far, which is why she is the least popular girl in the harem to a point of having actual Hatedoms.
Well, the Japanese have double-standards in fiction too.
Men getting unnecessarily abused for comedic effect was typical in Takahashi's pre-Rinne works. Actually, I would think that's the case for a lot of shounen/seinen gag manga that have some lewd sprinkled throughout.
Ranma was particularly bad about it with her. And with it being the big named cliched harem series everyone copied it reached its ultimate head with Love Hina was is nearly unwatchable with the extent it goes with Naru.
Its pretty typical across the genre in general, but Akane is one of the examples where its an already extreme case made more blatant because the series is 95% filler and as such she never changes or cuts back on it.
It would be like if in Inuyasha, Kagome continued to use the cursed Sit command for the entire series as much as she does in the initial dozen episodes. As she doesn't, it does seem even Takahashi realized you can't keep that same dynamic going forever, regardless of both series having little other plot development.
That was true for Kuno too. In one of the first subplots Ranma pointed out that he was holding back every time he "challenged" her.
Akane lost fights to more talented girls like Shampoo all the time, although she never got beaten down like the guys.
anybody who has actually read the manga or even watched the anime knows that one of the central plot points is that Akane isn't actually that good, and is probably the weakest of the main cast. It's an important plot point because her father wants a strong martial artists to inherit the school, thus the arranged marriage. She spends the whole show looking to improve enough to overcome Ranma and others but is never really able to.
Wanna make a bet in a remake she will be the god-queen of martial arts?
That sounds like the insane and out of touch dream every tranny has. Jesus
In practice the "gender" thing isn't very egregious. Its a gag story about Chinese curses around transformation. The gender one is just a service to allow the MC to compete in every single form of martial art around, including ones that only girls do like Rhythmic Gymnastics.
In fact, it spends a lot of time pointing out the gender differences (like lack of muscle) and with him abusing the fuck out of female privilege to get away with shit like the piece of shit he is. In a way, its very anti-tranny.
But like any good "modern fanbase" all the little details get scrubbed away to turn him into an uncertain guy who wants to actually stay a girl because uwu flowers.
I'm kind of surprised it didn't happen sooner.