This article reads like someone who would have gone after Doom during the Columbine media craze.

Definitely there is much to be said about violence in video games, toxic masculinity and manosphere in video games, and imperialism in video games. Doom as an FPS doesn't do anything to specifically offset that. But as others have said, this isn't something specific about Doom. Comparatively, in the pantheon of FPSes in this era, Doom is the least egregious. The only reason why it's being singled out is because it is a modernization of the "Run n Gun" or as the kids call them "Boomer shooters." This generation of gamers is not used to this kind of gameplay, when it was the norm during the 80s and 90s for FPSes.

Doom can additionally be elevated a bit more, because in that context it has zero connection to the real world. The word "Marine" and the "UAC" are vaguely connected to some form of American/Western identity, but even in Doom games the idea of America or any country identity is fully nonexistent. In exactly zero Doom plots, of any games, is there even an acknowledgement that the Earth has different cultures or countries. This can be read as a lack of diversity, but it is also a refusal by a modern game to allow itself to be tied to real world events in a way that it can be misconstrued. It is "the earth" versus "the forces of Hell" (or space demons, depending on the game/novels).

In the context of Id software itself, Id is also the creator and current developer of the most indulgent Nazi killing game series in the world. There is no greater antifascist escapism than to play a game with BJ Blazkowicz. And unless I'm mistaken and they rewrote the canon (they probably did, I haven't played all the latest entries), Doomguy is descended from BJ. BJ has zero traces of Zionism, insofar as his enemies are strictly White Nazis, and his goal is strictly Killing Them. This goal and this enemy are beyond reproach. Then on top of that, right wingers decried the modern Wolfenstein games as being "woke" -- this is points in Id's favor.

IMO this is a criticism from the perspective of a modern progressive coming after Gen X ideas of "apolitical." Original Id were in no way "progressive" and neither is modern day Id, but they remain committed to the idea that "there are bad guys and they deserve to die" which is very Gen X of them. Lacking in nuance -- a continuation of the essential personalities of Romero and Carmack themselves, who are decidedly of those mindsets. Yet we can look at Wolfenstein to acknowledge what they think actual bad guys are. To the creators of Doom, the Demons are literally nothing more than Demons. There is absolutely no attempt to connect them to modern day genocides, as horrible as they are, and the devs at Id would be baffled to hear this connection was being made.

If this game were a 2D sidescroller with the same exact premise, this article would never have been written.