diversity in media is a social moral good etc but it's even simpler: diversity is interesting. like even the "medieval europe was only white" lad simulator couldn't resist a queer black character... the same stories always about the same people = boring https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-gamergator-rhetoric-of-historical-accuracy-has-come-back-to-bite-kingdom-come-on-the-arse
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Just thinking e.g. how much stronger the themes in the Persona games would be if they allowed actual queerness and didn't undermine their points about objectifying women by objectifying them.