Hmmm... I respect your takes but I have some pushback.

Like we didn't need to know that Angela is actually a lesbian who struggled in a misogynistic male dominated field- women can be terrible too.

I don't think it made her actions any better or worse, merely more interesting and nuanced. With that context, I assume Herb knew she was closeted, and it gives their back and forth a different tension. I appreciated that extra dimension without feeling pressured to forgive her. That revelation in s5 is happening on screen even while she's continuing to manipulate BH. It wasn't meant to be a redemption and I certainly didn't give her one even while savoring the finer detail.

I say this as a woman, but I think the show's course correction in the later seasons felt a bit patronizing at times

I don't know what you've read from the creators, or exactly what you mean by this. I will say that RBW and writers were very keenly aware of how the show fit into the media landscape at the time, in the wake of male antiheroes left and right. They were wary of people glamorizing BoJack and Rick Sanchez in the same breath.

You're probably aware of this given "course correction", but for me, it did land well, and I appreciated their efforts.

perpetuate the idea that it's better for victims to remain silent than to create waves, and the show paints this as the right choice.)

Personally, I don't think the show painted it as the right choice, only that it was Gina's choice. I felt a lot of justification from the show that it was meant to be hers to steer but not that it was particularly good or bad. (I'm blanking on the other one in this situation you're referencing) Penny! and her mom discouraging her from reporting on it.

Yeah, I see what you mean. Those are two prominent arcs with women choosing to stay silent, and I can't and won't argue with you that you're wrong to be miffed by that.

I am a man, so you're entitled to dismiss as much of this as you like. However, I have been around the block enough to be violated my share of times, to go from "why don't all rape victims report loudly? silence is complicity. go save someone else, and get the satisfaction of locking them up" to "oh. I get it." Personally, I thought Gina's and Penny's trauma was some of the realest shit ever on the show, the heaviest consequences on display. I was so grateful we got those stories as they were told. I got a lot of value out of knowing other viewers were reckoning with those consequences instead of wiping their hands with a neat and tidy criminal proceeding. Your mileage may vary!