This type of disconnect is what happens when the media is more concerned about being in their sponsor's good graces than complying with their obligation to their audience. Next time, politely decline Disneyland tickets and other freebies, ya know, like the code of journalistic ethics dictate...
Now, queue accusations of misoginy and whatever a loud minority of idiots does, while the overall message, that traditional outlets should not have these huge conflicts of interest undisclosed, gets drowned in the shit flinging by those with megaphones, vs the silent majority.
Veilguard didn't fail because it had post op scars as a character option (but man, drama youtubers cashed in hard on that one), it failed because, apparently, nobody in the development team was as worried about shipping a good, well written and entertaining game, as they were with trauma dumping.
Edit: For the record, the laugh is for hyperbole, I'm pissed because this broken system results in further layoffs of people who were just caught in the meat grinder. UNIONISE yesterday!