What makes the character "woke" is the intent behind its creation, we are in a woke period, it's much easier to get anything financed in Hollywood/film if it has a die angle to it. This is part of their diversity initiatives (a well intended form of racism/sexism), this is on their own web site:
They even carry the iconography from communist groups like BLM and Antifa (fascisms is really bad, so is communism, burning buildings/houses, killing people, and causing general mayhem in order to bring about political change... this is almost like there was a word for coordinated violent political action but I can't remember it right now).
So yes, this kind of change is not just to be nice, it's made to upset and segregate people in identity groups.