I think it’s always funny when people who obviously aren’t actually members of the hobby give their takes on this stuff, like there is a delusional image of what being in the 40k hobby is like to the pol-scrollers who hover around looking for the next thing to sperg out about.
If anyone wants to know the actual community response most of us don’t care all that much about Custodes having women, it’s a complete nothing inclusion and Custodes are not Astartes so they don’t actually have any good reason to be male only. The vast majority response is that these new models rock and they objectively do. Having Custodes vehicles leave resin is going to print an insane amount of money and this will sell out a hundred times over. They’re also just much better than the Custodes models we got back in 7th and 8th with the dumb old baby head proportions. If you went to any painting or game table and started talking like niggas are talking here everyone would think you’re a deranged faggot. I’ve had over a decade in the hobby so I speak with authority in this, GW will be fine lmao no one actually gives a shit.
Also everyone knows GW’s studio sucks ass at painting faces and that they’re always much better than the preview images make them look, it’s just how every preview is.