> This game has been mired in some kind of controversy around over focus on social justice, aggressive responses from developers in response to critical reviews, and some other ‘woke’ criticisms. I find it strange that this is not mentioned in articles about this game being shut down.

That's because it would contradict The Message(TM). The acrobatics journalists have engaged in to do anything and everything other than mention

* the unbelievably hideous character models (best comment I saw on this: "First of all, don’t make all the characters look like the devs themselves in the mirror") ...

* ... each with pronouns—*EVEN THE ROBOT*—listed prominently* on the stat page ...

are something to behold.

Best comment I saw on this:

Two comments that I think well sum up this all-time, universe-wide disaster:

>Game has more pronouns than players

Alternatively, from a YongYea commenter after the game's shutdown:

>Concord pronouns: Was/Were�