For me, it’s linked with the amount of “local multiplayer” titles on Steam. There was fucking nothing! Ok, we could play nes or sega games, but it was strange to not have a lot of modern games. Thankfully, it’s slowly changing

“Some people are tall, some not. I require a game to give me a choice of playing a tall character”. If the gender is insignificant, why waste the effort of making everything twice just to have that choice?