I am not opposed to the idea of characters with disabilities in fiction because characters like MGS' Big Boss, Bentley from Sly Cooper, and X-Men's Professor X are proof that you can make great characters and stories by showing how they overcome their limitations.
However, this is a racing game with little to no story, which makes this inclusion confusing for me.
There have existed deaf racing drivers like Kitty O'Neal and the young British karter Caleb McDuff, but they are rather rare examples, and the Forza fanbase has complained about many things like a lack of interior customization or the ability to earn a grid position, but they have never complained about a lack of representation.
This was bound to happen given the current state of the industry. Between forced DRM, microtransactions, lack of features from decades ago, and broken, glitchy launches for AAA games, people have grown tired of the modern gaming landscape, in my opinion.
Of course, this is without even getting into the woke agendas, pronouns, and open contempt for the audience that permeates gaming today and often gets documented here.
Outside of some Switch titles, I personally have seen very few games worth anticipating.
Here's what I don't get though: there has historically been no demand for features like this to be included in Forza among the fanbase. Apparently, you can pick your pronouns as well, which I think is nonsensical at best and dangerous at worst, especially after having watched Matt Walsh's "What is a Woman?" documentary.
In addition, the game takes place in Mexico, a notably anti-woke country that hosts the Baja 1000 and other off-road desert races.
The competitors there are such hard workers- they often work on and drive their own vehicles, most of the teams are family run, and some of them run other businesses, too. They operate in extreme heat and have to learn how to make sacrifices- they don't have time to worry about nonsense like pronouns or "diversity".
Therefore, I can't help but wonder- who is this for? The fans don't care about these inclusion initiatives and the extreme fringe woke Twitter minority these moves are intended for don't even play Forza- let alone like cars.