Even if the thing itself is clumsy, or reductive, or inaccurate, there is a lot to be said for the effort - maybe this time the subject is handled imperfectly, but even that builds a foundation for the next attempt, and the ones to follow.
Movies at the beginning of that industry handled a lot of things clumsily. But as better and better filmmakers created solutions, and techniques and even tropes, the handling of all subjects, from romance to car chases, became better and better. We're at the point now in movies, where a poorly handled subject, like the one this thread is about, have fewer excuses. It still happens, but filmmakers have a wealth of approaches to emulate or be inspired by. And critics have a vast trove of better examples to point to and compare.
Video games have been around for forty years, but their abnility to even remotely represent realistic people, is fairly nascent. But it's evolving, and this is not a step backwards, it's a well-intenioned effort that will directly affect better representations in the future.
