Its speculation but it lines up with other debacles over the years. There is a genuine problem/concern. A group of chuds who actually are angry at something else it does pretend this is what they care about start the angry mob going. And then said mob tries to ignore the chuds ranting about other shit. Gamergate is probably the most well known example of this.

And it really does line up here. Funny enough, Overwatch had been batshit insane with loot boxes and shit drops for a year or so by that point and plenty of the same articles and arguments were made (although, I don’t think you could buy sexy nurse Mercy? you had to get her as a drop? Or an SFM clip…) but nobody cared and… many people were actively defending it all while being angry about a Vader skin.

And since? Nothing has changed lootbox wise, people genuinely like SWBF2-2 (or just hate BF2042 that much. It is hard to tell) and gacha games like Genshin Impact are defended by every outlet. And you still have the crowds who can’t hear about TLJ without writing an angry rant about how it ruined Star Wars.

Maybe I am just a cynic. But having been around for more than a few of these: Outrage on the level of SWBF2-2 doesn’t happen without ulterior motives. And those ulterior motives are almost always horrifically chuddy.