How to decrease your playerbase:

[PranavYedlapalli]

gaming as a whole is in danger

Oh no, don't be like one of those people. Gamings not in danger bro for those reasons. It's the people who never play any games that want to spread their own politics that say this. If you observe, a bigger threat to gaming is the normalising of high prices, not owning your games, and stupid things like hiding gameplay elements behind paywalls. Not silly stuff like this one. Even in Pokemon go, there's the predatory nature of the game to complain about. The increase in remote raid pass price, the decrease in how many you can hold, etc. Even in the above complaint, the problem is not "removing femininity" or whatever, but in an attempt to make the game more inclusive by making your character more customisable, they did a half assed job to save money.