you forgot the part where one dude destroying multiple opponents simultaneously is also a fantasy. If we wanted to adhere to reality it would be that war is chaos and the ones left standing are more lucky than they are skilled
Resident Evil has zombies and mutants. Chris does more damage with weapons, takes way more damage and runs faster.
Jill defeated Nemesis, she still couldn't push the heavy bell in the clock tower.
The problem is not having both man and woman but
how you want them.
In TLOU2 you have a woman that plays like a rogue, which makes perfect sense, and a woman that is built, looks and plays like Conan the Barbarian. That's jarring.
Look at the end to TLOU2.
If they knew gameplay is the excuse to everything, they would've let Abby retain her NFL body to fight Ellie, because gameplay is fantasy so there was no reason to shrink her. Ellie can just punch the hell out of Abby like Nadine did to Drake.
The main reason shrunk Abby because Ellie overpowering Abby as big as she was would look like absolute ****. That's how you know Abby's design was bad.
They also made it to make her look pitiable, but that's only part of the story.