I'm more of a light them on fire kinda guy.

People like you belong in a mass grave.

That person was based af. It's a shame he missed.

But Russia hacked the 2016 election to put mango mussolini in office, so american homophobia is also their fault. /j

[M]ust we bow to an auteur's artistic vision (or a community's bigotry) about these things? Perhaps if the artistic point of the thing is to make people suffer in some way, but otherwise?

I can't speak for Poogona, but balancing a game for different difficulty levels while still making the game enjoyable is going to be harder for some games than others. That doesn't mean it can't or shouldn't be done, just that the task is non trivial. I imagine things would be better in this regard without booj cracking the whip on devs.

The way you phrased your comment makes it sound like your take is controversial. Are there really a lot of people who think otherwise?

No, gamers bad.

The only "gender ideology" is cisgender ideology. The only grooming is reactionary parents forcing their child to present as the gender they were assigned at birth.