I'm not an activist, but I do care about good games. I write this for posterity as I saw this coming from the first game play trailer. Why didn't you? Why didn't you say something? Why didn't see these obvious faults and issues, Why was no one talking about them? Why did people only focus on the polarizing and divisive topics that make up less than 5% of the total gameplay experience?
What I've learned is that most people who consider themselves an activist are actually engagement and content addicts who spend more time on platforms like X and Discord, waging wars against a fictional bigot bogeyman, than they will ever do playing the games. It's all just a part of a feedback loop to satisfy their dopamine needs. They don't care about the issues or the games, they use them as a means to an end. Many online communities are polluted with these terminally online, parasitic individuals who spend more time online as fake personas around other fake personas than they do in the real world with real