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You're working backwards trying to find excuses. Even disregarding the fact that "black guy is meant to be stealthy" is looking objectively wrong, the "I put my hood up and sat on a bench so now I'm invisible" mechanic has been a joke spanning back to literally the first AC game ever made. If you wanted to get upset about how implausible it is, you're more than 15 years too late.
Have you played AC Syndicate? This game is led by the same studio. Going by that game and the official videos on this one, he's not stealthy at all. He's a strong brawler, while the woman is a ninja and you'll get to choose your approach from mission to mission.
If your problem with games is a lack of realism, you must not play very many.
They do something similar in the first Nioh game, but the main character didn't stand out in a world covered in half demons and spirits that all look way weirder than a foreigner with pale skin. Whatever locals they met were mostly dead or fleeing from monsters and the xenophobic culture bits were mostly brushed aside.
That being said I don't think Team Ninja enjoyed the online controversies that happened from making a white guy the main character in Nioh. Nioh 2 went back to having a Japanese half yokai as the lead. I'd wait to see if Ubisoft is capable of making an interesting story out of the foreigner in old Japan premise.
This hasn't been true for a while, except Mirage that tried to do a callback to that. But you know there's also a playable woman who is the perfect ninja archetype? Clad in black and hookchaining over buildings and throwing kunais in people's necks from the shadows or from 10 feet in the air, the type that never actually existed in History.
The stealth missions will use Naoe, the open combat missions will use Yasuke, nothing is broken. get a clue and drop the excuses already.
Good for you? You're still pretending that a Black guy in Japan somehow breaks some rules of the game. It's still true to History, the stealth is still there, nothing is broken, this is still the same Assassin's Creed as the previous games.
Actual Ninjas blended in by just dressing as regular peasants (they came from the peasant class after all) and the nobles never really cared enough about the peasants to notice "hey I haven't seen this guy around before".
Probably not a technique that a black dude in Japan could use effectively.
Also it would probably be boring in terms of story. The shinobi being peasant class probably weren't invited to the courts of nobles. Also not a good idea to have assassins hanging around for dinner. Just discretely pay them for the job you need and that would be the limit of the interaction with them.
A retainer would be invited to court so you can involve him with some palace intrigue and such.
I'm sure they'll probably include ninjas in the story and have the protagonist spend some time with them and learn their secret ninjutsu techniques, though probably the more mystical (mythological) variety.
Probably the same way every AC character has blended into the crowd while wearing radically different clothes from every other person in any given crowd, and those clothes also being extremely overt about the Assassin order membership of the wearer. I mean the assassins robes are color coordinated and adorned with they group logo for god sakes.