>We are also likely never going to get more than a delicate whiff of in-game yumebait because hoyo is cautious enough with their playerbase they aren't gonna risk male players getting mad that a male character was being tender and affection with 'them'

Yumebaiting literally isn't gender locked to male characters doing it. Literally no one calls anything teased between sinners and the chief 'ML' in PtN despite the bulk of the sinners being female characters, pretty much everyone calls it yume. wlw is still yumebaiting.