My favorite example of an otherwise good game being unnecessarily dragged down by a deliberately unappealing protagonist is Returnal. AAA production values, intense shooter gameplay, roguelite difficulty - everything screams target audience of 15-35yo males. So why is the main character a scowling, homely, middle-aged woman?
Well the studio behind Returnal has a new game coming soon. Same genre, same production values, a sequel in all but name. And the protagonist is a gruff masculine dude?
Another modern girl boss game was Control (from Remedy, the makers of the supremely retarded Alan Wake 2, a game that replaced the literal title character with a black female diversity hire). Famously, Remedy deliberately uglified the female protagonist of Control with a manjaw. She looks way worse than real life model.
The direct sequel to Control features a white male protagonist.
Now maybe these characters are gay. I'm sure they'll be thoroughly soy and leftist. But it's interesting to see big new sequel games from obviously woke developers begrudgingly turning to male main characters. As a rule, these swaps generally only go one way.
Oh I only meant in making a shit/broken game. As you can come back from that as look at the reception of BF 2042 to BF6 or on the flip side COD...whatever was previous to the latest Black Ops. The leftism made them bad but there was a path back.
FULL on leftism drinking the kool Aid, that DEMOLISHES studios, just look at HighGuard and Relooted, there will be no funds left TO come back from, they're dead. Coming back after being infested by people that hate their audience requires purges and a lot of money to survive long enough to produce a product worthy of the audiences attention.