stg83: Because that is the current fad and the sort of thinking that shows you're
progressive and all about inclusion in videogames. :P
Cyraxpt: I hope that you're right with the fad part, i don't have sides on these discussions but dear lord it's getting to the point that is annoying that everything is a controversy or devs feel the need to pander their game to a certain group on the internet to get more visibility.
Personally, I find it annoying how any suggestion that a game should include playable characters who aren't cishet white men turns into a debate with lots of hostility. (See, for example, what happened when the recent Baldur's Gate expansion came out.)