The foreign market and kids have provided a net for producers. It’s seems to be creating a new sort of laxity. Non-Anglophones are accustomed to everything not making perfect sense to them and some things lost in translation. Children will eat Chocolatey Coated Sugar Bombs. The industry is too concerned with producing things these groups are willing to swallow.
They are allowing pandering and signaling to a miniscule fraction determine the nature of the characters and how they are presented. I can guarantee that FAR more are turned off by that. Homosexuals are more than represented in the independent art house circuit.