I think cosplayer lean to the super woke. Killing softcore in media helps their in person softcore have more value.
I am very sure Japan has its own basket of problems with its cosplay community, while I am assured in the States at least that you are very correct. Hell, at least in Japan, the best of cosplayers just cosplay to represent their characters to the best of their abilities and given beauty in respect, while out west, we've seen a lot of attention whoring and shallow "lolz silly cuck bois" sentiments from the "western professional cosplaying scene".
This may have come across as "pro japan shit murrica" nonsense, but this has only helped reinforce in me my belief in the hypothesis of how such a productive and active industry in Japan, and even in its slowdown of output, that promotes artists to thrive within its cultural bedding, promotes more cases of good character and mores than the pure spectator and overindulgent bystander driven anime fan scene and community here in the States. The reasoning behind this is that, without a grasp in understanding the efforts of hard work to put into artistic works, you attract shitty people who don't even care about animation or sequential art, let alone anime and manga. This even goes to the faggots who have helped spread oldfag days of shitty fan behaviors, like thinking that anime can only be made in Japan "because the Japanese only can" and having a completely assblasted infertile landscape that's been dominated by the ruined fragments of the Comics Books Crash of 1996 (among other things), yet no one has taken the effort to clean up the rubble and junk since, and just builds upon the hazard and haphazard ass shit without a second thought.
I mean, for fuck's sake, there was a collaboration with Sega not too recently sponsoring select cosplayers (who are fans of the series) for a special edition Phantasy Star Cosplayer Album. A lot of good cosplayers over there have also known when to quit and to just have done it as a fun hobby. Over here? We have thots and whores collaborating secondhand with photographers selling fucking photos for desperate cucks and even fucking bath water for the stupid, which will last until their beauty fades, the fans stop paying, or they make their million and invest it before doing endless coke with their dream "alpha boyfriend" in the Bahamas. Jessica Nigri can attest to this shit, look her ass up.
And coming back full circle with the Leftist SJW faggotry showcases a major powerstarved hunger to a lot of these ugly whores, in that they want their cake and all to themselves, and if anyone tries, they'll call the fucking cops and the feds like the spoiled princesses they are. This means they'll pretty much bend politics and even the law to get what they want, and with no infrastructure of creative industry, they will take the reigns of fandom for their petty ass pile of shit they can put their throne on. Pretty MATI of me to say, but shitty human beings are shitty human beings, and I'm equal opportunity shitting.