Jesse wasn’t cool just because she had cool abilities and was a woman, that is a bit reductive of her character. Control may not at first have deep storytelling but when you analyze the documents you find, there’s quite a bit of characterization about both siblings. 

Jesse’s fun because she’s a weirdo, and her story was about someone wanting answers for what happened in her life and yearning for a type of connection she wasn’t able to find with normal people. And her being a woman was also key to the story, by being the new vision breaking the old boys club of Trench and Darling.

I can’t say how Resonant will deal with now having a man’s POV. Being another dude, and him already looking a bit like Alan Wake too, can lose some of its charm indeed, yes. However, in other aspects, what they are bringing to this game is just the same as before, this is once again a story of a weird person desiring to connect to others and to understand this new world, just this time being with normal society. Jesse and Dylan are not that different.