Possibly, yeah. I think another component might just be how meaningless "woke" has become, it effectively just means "bad" or "thing I don't like" at this point.

Queer rep wasn't really there, but for the 2000s that's hardly unique. I remember one of the selling points of Pathfinder c. 2010 being that they included a lot more queer characters than D&D.

Bizarre given the chuds tend to gravitate more toward the TSR era. Plus, at least going off of remembered art, 3e and 4e both took a lot of pains to make it clear that women and POC belonged as adventurers. The execution wasn't always great (OA 2001), but there was at least an effort.

Agree 5 million percent

My understanding is that Ed Greenwood intended the setting to be aggressively horny, but that it was rolled back hard by TSR.

poleandrope.blogspot.com/2009/06/faer...

WRITER: Hello! I work very hard to craft diverting art and entertainment projects that I offer for sale; I do this so I can afford things like food and electricity.

THIS FUCKIN GUY: Oh my GOD can you not simply divest yourself of the wage-justifying paradigm, you are so cringe

It's a really bizarre decision, but I think it speaks a lot to just how much of a flop H2sh has been. Critical reception has been bad of course but I think this makes it clear it was impacting sales, I don't think they would have done this otherwise.