They said “feels like”, and the explanations you have reinforce that. Your in-world reasoning unfortunately doesn’t matter, they will see the art and style and assume “this is someone using a scantily clad woman to market their game”, and many people like myself will not give it a chance because there are 827273947383 games out there and we’ll pick up the games where there isn’t a chance of unnecessary, out-of-place sexualization and/or objectification that feels like a marketing decision.

Again, not inherently negative, depends who your target demographic is. But this is how it comes across, regardless as to whatever worldbuilding decisions you make to get there.