If it was a male character acting the exact same way, it would be just dull and tropey. That it's a woman is pissing people off. I want to expand on that though, because I'm not saying it's pure misogyny. - The sensible complaint imo is that that dull and tropey man character is somehow laundered by being cast female. If it had been a man, they may have been expected to get something more going on with a character than the one-dimensional edgy attitude.
They are good writers, and they're surely going to develop the character more, but all we have is the trailer. All they showed is a too-cool-for-school/hard-boiled/*yawn* character.
Now I do think there are plenty (read: some, not all) of guys trippin because the character isn't hot enough for them. Or more sadly, that it's a black woman (don't tell me otherwise). But I think a ton of it is coming from a valid place of creators trying to make female characters but not having the balls to make them interesting, with flaws and self-doubt etc. It's tiring and it's way out of touch. It's not bold or new anymore. It's been a long time. Even though a bunch of these critics may be on the anti-woke pipeline and overacting, there's validity to at least some of it.
You know what's a great female lead? Hannah. The one in my avatar. The game's writing is horrific and her voice acting is frankly insane and sounds like a cross between Schwarzenegger and Tommy Wiseau. Should be awful. But when a thug calls her bitch three times like it's her name, she doesn't get "Activated". She doesn't go into a speech about how this bitch can do anything a man can do or something. It goes right through her because it's just words. Warns the guy she's going to waste him and follows through.
You get to see her girl talk. How she's been on a couple dates but feeling disinterested. You get to see her do a little sass in the mirror to herself even though she doesn't put much effort into her appearance. And you get to see that she's been trying to play mom to a kid in a shelter and doing a shitty job of it and feeling sorry for herself instead of making a change. All this with actual shitty writing and acting, because they sketched out a character who makes problems for themselves or just doesn't know what to do sometimes. It's way more relatable and it's actually super interesting to relate to someone who is not like you. ie: a woman when you are a man.
So I'm a little scared nd is going to fall into that trap of making a boring ass character that may get a pass because it's a non-sexualized woman. (Hannah btw in non-sexualized) But, I won't write them off just yet. I only got around to tlou recently and am super impressed with what this studio can do in terms of storytelling. There's probably nothing for me to worry about. The trailer raised an eyebrow but I'm not going to run off extrapolating a 30 hour game off of it.