If chuds actually gave a shit about Nier beyond 2B’s ass they’d absolutely fucking hate it. Half the characters in Automata are just bi/lesbian disasters and it dabbles in some real gender fuckery.
The original Nier has one of the best written intersex characters I’ve ever seen and it literally FORCES you to read her backstory and how she was discriminated against because of it.
They don’t give a shit about the Nier franchise outside of the amount of porn that it has generated.
I think chuds are willing to tolerate the queerness in Automata because it’s not really a major part of the game (IIRC it’s mostly 2B’s handler in one or two side quests?) and because they can fetishize them (hence the porn).
Curious to hear your take on the gender fuckery, it’s been a while so I might be forgetting. Eve being a guy? The robots emulating human gender despite being genderless? Or something else entirely?
You raise a good point, but it must be noted that the pronoun selector is front-loaded, compared to the sidequests that are like 20 hours into the game and skippable.