I think you guys are a bit too married to the numbers and flop shit. At the end of the day these little controversies add up and cause long term damage. The poz is well known, Warhorse can't trick a large subset of their own audience twice, and the only way for them to proceed with the inevitable third game will be to double down on wokeshit or pare it back, both of which could be considered its own victory.
This also serves as a black mark on the records of shilltube, Worth a Buy fucked himself over hardcore with the simping for this game, and everyone else has been suspiciously mum on it.
We have known for a long time now that the new tactic will be to hide the woke shit until much deeper in a game, where normies won't ever find it. This game went way harder than I thought they would with this tactic already, and people are already wary of it going forward.
You guys also aren't factoring in the fact that this sort of RPG is something people have been starving for since Skyrim all the way back in 2011.
It was always going to sell well, but that's not the end of the world. There's still plenty of flops yet to come and 'mildly woke' leading to relative success is already progress from where we were five years ago.