Quite similillary, I believe that we should also not demand that Crystal Dynamics or Ninja Theory put optional male leads as this was not how the game was intended to play. I would very much defend them as well.

Remeber, this is a narratively driven game, (The Point Being that were this a game like Skyrim or Mass Effect, where the player is meant to imprint on the character and main character is much more interchangeable, I would totally understand and agree with you. But I would like to belive that because this is such a narratively driven game, all the characters serve a purpose services by the story.

After all we don’t go around telling Suzanne Colins to rewrite the Hunger Games with a male lead or tell J.K. Rowling that she has to make a version of Harry Potter with Harry as a girl do we?