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I realized this when I got into DBD and realized the game is in fact, very "woke", and that it's a core point of the game's identity.
But it's not a problem because it feels like a geniune effort by the Entity to capture a wide variety of survivors and killers from all walks of life, which translates into a lot of players able to look at the heroes and villains and go "Hey, s/he's like me!", which translates to putting in small things referencing sexualities and cultures to pander to those individuals.
The writing for all these characters are consistently good, except for when they aren't (Looking at you Skull Merchant)
DBD IS a "Woke" game by every definition, but it isn't shit and the story's actually good because it's clear the people making it give a shit about what they're doing and the "woke" aspects simply come from exploring the ramifications of having the kind of cast it does.
I began to suspect it when people were bitching about how "Rey's a giant Mary Sue!" in Star Wars
Because she isn't. She actually LOSES most of the fights she's in, can't control her powers well for most of the films, and "How can she fly the Falcon so well!?!?!" was a common complaint even though she literally breaks the damn thing while doing so, meaning she can't "fly it so well", Rey as a character is clearly not the problem, but people latched onto her because she was something they could point to and say "HERE'S THE PROBLEM!"
So what WAS the problem with the sequels? The problem was they were so scared of doing something new with the Star Wars brand (Due to the fact that the prequels did something new and were lambasted for it) that they largely rehashed IV, V, and VI, without a plan for actually weaving one consistent story (Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker are great movies.... that feel like they belong in separate trilogies)
And yeah... that and I will agree with the bashers in that making Luke's Jedi Order fail and killing off all of his students off-screen without introducing any of them was basically Disney throwing money away.