First if you're going to claim something is false you should support that claim. Every example I just gave were real examples from the past year of things WOTC has done and responses they got from some elements on the net. I stand by what I said - some people will spin anything WOTC says or does as negative, no matter what it is.
Second I didn't say all controversy is equivalent. I didn't imply that either. What I said is it's all becoming noise.
Now you're making judgement calls as if what you view as important is universal.
It would be "of significantly less significance"? That's....OK you can't have a username of "Pedantic" and type that sentence.
But on a less silly note, says who? I guarantee in optimization circles there would be a lot more controversy about such a class than about AI artwork. A lot of people, believe it or not, really don't care about AI artwork or actually like it. I am not one of them, but I know several who genuinely like AI artwork and are entirely unconvinced it's problematic in any way.
Similarly I truly do not care about presentation of race or gender in new products. Truly, I will roll with whatever they go with on those topics and just make it my own if I have any issues. And almost none of the dozen other players I game with would blink about any of the likely choices they could make on those topics. Call it race, species, lineage, whatever. I am not going to care. Use the male pronoun as a generic, use the female pronoun as the generic, use they/them as the generic, I will not care. Almost nobody I game with would care about those presentation issues.
Again I assure you the amount of controversy over an official Time Traveler class that fights with unique access to ray guns would be THROUGH. THE. ROOF. in many genuinely meaningful portions of the TTRPG discussion community. There already was tons of controversy about a couple of the Critical Role classes which had semi-official gloss on them that smacked of some of those concepts. What you find important or controversial isn't necessarily universal to all players of this game. It's part of the beauty of this game in fact.