Usual reminder that politico is owned by Germanys largest right leaning yellow press publisher Axel Springer: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/axel-springer-acquire-news-website-politico-2021-08-26/
So take everything with a grain of salt on there.
Except that that is not obvious sarcasm but the normalisation of anti diversity talk.
The more important talking point would be, that Larian does not put short term business measures clad in „pseudo science“ before their product related decisions. Otherwise we would have no mod support, the wizard class would be the first dlc and the complete set of speech would only be available for people with a season pass.
Ok now we need Owen Wilson/ Biden