I don’t see what’s wrong with it at all. I’m hard pressed to think of why it’s a problem in anyway. It literally isn’t at all.

As for the cynical side, from what I understand this is one of the screenwriter’s opinions that was brought up in an interview and it’s been blown into a big thing by media outlets. Disney hasn’t mentioned it so it’s not really a Beauty and the Beast or Star Trek Beyond situation where it’s a pandering marketing tactic and I’m not sure it’s even canon.

Who knows if there’s any sign of it in the movie but I will say if there isn’t, that’s lazy to say he is that then. In that case calling it pandering makes sense. Otherwise bullshit. Every time a story includes a non straight character, nerds complain loudly about “pandering.” Yet of course no one cries “pandering” when they’re straight. It’s bullshit and you’re part of the problem if you feed into that.