Or...OR...people could just make games that are fun and well-made, without concerning themselves about how they can reach these keedz. Why is that never an option?
because marketing.
These fucking people in this fucking tumor of a department have been given way too much control to dictate what "works" and/or "doesn't work" in games. Games these days is about reaching the widest demographic possible, which means these games go through things like focus groups that determine what is and or isn't "acceptable" to the normalfags. This, as a result, negatively impacts things like story, characters (and their designs), and most importantly gameplay... because having your hand held with tutorials wasn't enough, now retards need fucking paint to tell them where to go.
In this case here with women and their appearance, it's not just a marketing issue, but a political one too. Thanks to 3rd wave feminism in the 2010's that infiltrated the gaming scene, women and their appearance in games has been a hot-blooded issue when before that it was basically a non-issue, especially since the women of the past were making these companies tons of money from the fans that loved those characters... INCLUDING the kids that they claim would otherwise be negatively affected by seeing them. No kid had a panic attack when they saw Lara Croft. No kid went into an epileptic shock when they realizes Samus was an attractive woman. But that doesn't matter to these people because their real and ONLY goal is to push an agenda, so they hide behind great big walls to deflect criticism, with one of those walls being "won't someone please think of the children"... the very same wall that dumb irresponsible parents use when some shit goes down but they don't want to take responsibility for it so they would rather have the government be the parents while they do jack shit, and anyone that actually goes outside to experience the IRL world knows how much that fucking sucks.
It's not like there weren't games that didn't teach morals and good lessons before current year, and I'm not talking about the "edutainment" or "religious" games either. The point that these idiots always miss is that video games are meant as an escape from the real world to HAVE FUN! Majority of people aren't completely fucking braindead where they can't tell the difference between right/wrong or fake/real. The REAL issue, is that these people want the old crew of gamers out and gone to replace them with their own group of friends, and everytime they try it, they're told to fuck off, and they HATE that. If they could nuke each and every one of us out of existence they would GLADY do it in a heartbeat. THAT'S why they say things like "we need to reach a broader demographic and make a better future". It has nothing to do with money, because these games prove that they sell like shit, otherwise they would fucking stop it. It's them trying to get other people on their side to tip the scale on the "Capital G" gamers.