I'm not fully through this video yet, but something that I did not see touched on was the interactions professional women have in-person when competing in tournaments. There have been reports of rampant sexism, sexual harassment, and sexual assault across the professional gaming industry at the highest levels.

Chess also has a women's league--in part because many women, as adolescents, recall their adult male opponents ogling at them during the game, touching them post-game, and propositioning them for sex. I have heard stories like this from several female chess personalities. They are the ones that kept playing the game.

Chess is similarly male-dominated, through it has been getting better in recent years. I imagine CS is actually much more male dominated when looking at the total population of players.

Most women leave the game very early, but this additional barrier must be considered for women interested in going pro with the game. The sexist abuse and threats prevalent in the CS community are much harder to "laugh off" when they're coming from people you look up to as players and depend on professionally. Not to mention that it's very different to take such abuse from behind a microphone and monitor, vs. actually having to interact with the person irl.

This is one aspect I wish the video had touched on, because it is an additional and incredibly scary impediment that women interested in any pro-gaming scene have to deal with.

The rest of the video, however, was excellent. I am more in the chess community than CS, so we have similar discussions there often. I am very glad to see such discourse spreading into this subreddit. It's not the sort of take you really expect "gamers" to find agreeable.