Video games are on the corporate world's shitlist ever since Gamergate, because we don't "play the game" we're made to suffer.
I mean, maybe? It seems like the narrative is pretty twisted because I know it's not just the men who like attractive designs for female characters. There are women you can find all over conventions of all sorts, on social media, or just playing and enjoying games. They may not all make video arguments like Liana here or Vara when this sort of change from past games happens, but they enjoy traditional design concepts of beauty and sexuality when games have them. Given an extensive character creator, they make their ladies attractive.
So these moves clearly aren't pandering to all women, just a certain subset, yet the narrative is always trying to pull things around to the topic of men's expectations and trying to put a negative spin on it, like it is championing the idea of depriving entitled manbabies, pairing this with an outright assertion that women universally find the prior designs demeaning. That just isn't what I see in women's attitudes and unprompted thoughts and chosen characters across the broader scene of videogames, be it with fighters or shooters or MMOs.