Character visual design has been taken over by 24 year old art history majors from universities who all think putting aesthetically pleasing female forms in gaming is designing for the male gaze, and who are all personally ugly, and emotional wrecks.

Studios won't fire these people because they are REALLY LOUD on social media, and, their bosses are all graduates of the same woke universities themselves, and tacitly agree with them.

This is killing game studios, but so far, no one is willing to do anything about it, and therefore small indie ships and solo devs are basically taking over gaming from the bottom up.