It is both and many other inefficiencies.
We have seen crazy SJW now wasting dev time with their hissy drama about no boobs on female characters!
Believe me, I completely agree that that stuff is really, really silly. Changing things about beloved franchises just to please to a tiny minory of very loud, entitled cry-babies is a universally terrible idea.
I did notice in several reviews of COH 3, the 'journalist' or someone higher up felt the need to include a completely unncessary, pearl clutching paragraph, explaining to me that Rommel was a 'controversial figure' and that they didn't always feel entirely comfortable playing as the 'bad guys'.
No shit sherlock, the premise of the game is that its based on a real-life, horrifc world war. Grow up or play something else.