DEI is not a "buzzword", it's a literal business/hiring strategy that has a intentional and direct impact on the culture and priorities of a company.
When a company prioritizes identity hiring, the quality of the the product drops (including the features you mention), since by definition you are no longer choosing to hire the most qualified people.
You also alienable a chunk of your audience for no good reason, which further places financial pressure on the studio, since backlash will decrease revenue.
How many more companies need to crash and burn before people get it?
These types of takes show you who is a tourist. People will blame buzzwords like woke and DEI, but they'll never mention the portal, power creep, pvp sandboxes, old-gen support.
If you get your gaming takes from SmashGPT running reddit threads through AI, re-evaluate your life.