The interview means nothing
There is no way on God's green flat earth that Ryukishi07 put any serious attempt at feminist commentary in the story he wrote.
Have you seen how that yellow cracker writes female characters? Higurashi's cast was specifically engineered as a wish fulfilling quasi-harem featuring 11 year olds.
This is that one interview where Miyazaki supposedly said Elden Ring was about racism all over again.