As an aside, the "obviously the devs don't believe in this" line is a lot harder to swallow if you're a minority who is surrounded by people who aren't, I think.
There are so many people who use this sort of defense. Obviously I don't agree with this... but they put in no effort to showcase that aside from telling us that we should have assumed it. They give no reason for it to be obvious. We're just supposed to assume goodwill because they want us to assume goodwill.
It's particularly bad for people who enjoy "ironic" racism, because obviously they aren't actually racist, they're just telling a joke. Despite not having make it clear before that they don't believe the racist ideas they're spouting in their jokes. And telling you much later that, you know, there's actually truth to that though. And don't worry, it doesn't obviously apply to you, you're not like the rest of them.
The devs were working with a high octane racist, they didn't make even a token a statement when they presumably found out, they didn't make one when they were asked, they didn't make one when their ex-staff member make a statement, they didn't when their publisher did. How it is obvious that they aren't racist? What have they done to make that obvious? What evidence do I have that leads me to that conclusion?