I made a thread about this, but the main problem of this modern attitudes/color spray diversity shit you see in modern fantasy products is that it obliterates immersion. You aren't being taken away to realms beyond time, you're basically watching someone's community theater play.

The creators like that because they tend to be made up of people utterly contemptuous of fantasy as a genre, and it doesnt bother normies since they're largely okay with the community theater vibe and aren't expecting to be immersed. However, fantasy thrives in sweeping to lands of wonder, and without this the community theater vibe isn't enough to hold most normies' attention, which is why most new fantasy products keep faceplanting despite generally okay reviews. They usually need some other hook, like how BG3 has a huge amount of open-endedness and insane reactivity, essentially allowing the player to do whatever they want in the game, which is where most of its hype and fanbase comes from. Even these fans dont claim that the game makes them feel like they've been taken off to another world.

The funny thing is, even the defenders of this slop know it's true. Their only response is that you're a virgin chud who is stinky and bad because you noticed that the emperor wasn't wearing any clothes.