Identity politics has infected the book publishing industry, too, by the way. Nearly all published authors, heads of publishing houses, editors, and critics are left wing, so identity politics has found an easy foothold there. Lots of talk about "problematic" authors, "problematic" portrayals of particular races, etc. They have what are called "sensitivity readers," who comb through manuscripts for things that are politically incorrect. You see the same stifling of creativity, the same narrowing of voices, that you see in Hollywood and in games. And the same complicitly among the journalists.
One thing that makes me proud to be a gamer, though, is that we push back. We've been pushing back against this nonsense for over a decade, and we aren't going to stop. It's different in Hollywood and in the book publishing industry, where they tend to just accept it and roll over. Gamers, though - probably because we are an unruly bunch who fight dragons in our spare time - push back in all sorts of creative and clandestine ways.