I wonder how much of this is the fault of social media or the internet as a whole. When you are bombarded with controversies and culture wars about this stuff all the time, you tend to fall firmly on one of the (usually) two sides of the issue. It's easy to get caught up in it so deep, that you are primed to suspect every female protagonist, every gay character, etc. to be part of the SJW agenda. I've noticed this with myself, at least. The mind gets poisoned by this, to the point where you are unable to enjoy hardly anything anymore without thinking about rl politics. Did people care this much about gays in games 10 or 20 years ago? If so, I didn't notice, because it wasn't spread around the internet like a virus.