This is literally the problem, let's RP. Engineer: comes up with strong rational solution, hey so all of the people polled -in places with actual gamers, not random polls to people who know what a game is- have said, hey can you make the elf hot please, im spending 10 hours a week on this and having the character being a nonbinary sac of potato orc with a Tumblr addiction is killing my vide. You (Toby), but someone might complain on Twitter and if I conflate some random numbers online I can draw the conclusion that one teenage girl complained. How is that rational?

>You can go on Twitter

well there's your first mistake. I'd rather go on 4chan and ask them for game design ideas. At least they will be consistently trash. Consistency is key in game design.

It's not about sourcing ideas, it's about gauging what "real gamers" are bitching about.

As it turns out, the things they bitch about are occasionally indicative of people who have tastes that polite society doesn't want to indulge.