It reinforces the idea of the IT industry as a place for men, and the male gaze[0], as well as injecting sexuality into an entirely asexual domain for no reason. If we want computing to be inclusive, and I personally do, then we should make representations of computing inclusive.

That is diametrically opposed from being "anti" anything.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_gaze

I still don’t get it - there are pictures of men and women in that screenshot.

Maybe if you count the demon as male, or the tiny silhouette in the bottom right.

There are not. Only women, unless you're looking at a different screenshot.

I thought the two on the left were women and the one on the right was a hair band rocker (man).

I think if anything this is confirming your individual biases about what men and women should look like, which is part of the problem with our tech community. Even if I'm wrong about the rocker (likely), the problem isn't the picture - it's all of us.

I wouldn't mind a few shots of both, y'know?

If you need to have pictures, take landscapes.

Is this really where we are at now? Don't demonstrate any software using pictures of people, even in a niche hobbyist OS for a retro CPU architecture, just in case someone gets offended.

I dunno, apparently. I personally like landscapes anyway, but am not offended by pictures of people... Just naming what might please others. :)