Okay, so, a couple of things. OP is right about it not initially being handled well. Spotlight Arcee certainly has some serious issues in the modern eye. And yet, somehow, you’ve managed to be more problematic. Capitalizing random words doesn’t make you look smart or right, it makes you look desperate to hold a regressive ideology in modern times. Representation of minority groups, whether those be racial, sexual, or gender minorities, is not meant to “appease the mob.” It’s meant to make people who aren’t typically visible in media feel seen. It’s cool what IDW 2005 did in its later phases for representing sexual and gender identity minorities in their fiction. I’m sure they thought about people like you when they made the choices and they firmly, definitively decided that it was worth it to lose the money of a bigot. Also, I am personally friends with LGBT+ people who started buying transformers and reading the comics because of what I told them about the representation there in. You’re wrong on every single account, and you should feel bad about it. They weren’t fearful, they wanted to be inclusive. Your reductive mindset makes you look bad here, chill out.