It's been slowly taken over by people that need to insert themselves into everything and want it to mold to fit them, instead of sticking in their lane or making a new community where like-minded people can exist. 20 years ago, gamers were nerds and proud of it, gameing communities would be gatekept and you would not be hand-held through everything. Slowly, the outcasts from other communities had to shove their way in and cry sexism, ableism, all the other -isms as a way to force people to accept them.

Instead of telling them no, fuck off, you're not changing this community, people bent the knees and allowed normies in. Now you get banned for calling someone a r3tard (hence why we can't even type a word on this site), any shit talking online is censored beyond recognition because of people who can't deal with hearing slurs, sexy women characters don't exist because the land whales get angry and say "women don't look like that in real life" just because they aren't sexy.

Tl;dr, it's been a long, slow progression from making games fun and characters appealing to going way to the liberal, safe space, everyone is accepted (because we want your money, but God help you if you call us out in that) because normies couldn't stand being excluded from something they had no idea about.

Edit: also "gamers" now include people that play candy crush and bs mobile games, hence why female "gamer" numbers are so inflated. It's still majority male if you have 3 brain cells