It's more keep escapism in games. I don't want to see dreary average or ugly characters in games. I see enough average people in real life thank you very much.
They can make all characters as ugly as they want, if that's the way they want to exercise their creative freedom. I'm not encroaching on their right to make games with ugly people. But don't call me names, when I refuse to buy such products. And especially don't suggest that I just want to whack off on games. I can appreciate beautiful people without wanting to put my manpart in them. I prefer good looking men over ugly men as well, despite not being sexually interested in them. Or trans people or gay characters. But you and I both know very well that many of these game designers do it just to spite the fans. And then go on to call them toxic manbabies on twitter when they complain about making characters dreary and bland.
You are going for the hyperbole. There is a huge difference between making Asari faces look completely average and unremarkable against lore, and bikini armor.
It is obvious when it is political and when it isn't. That's the difference between say The Last of Us II which wants to accurately represent people after a zombie apocalypse. And Mortal Kombat 11, that is a completely nonsensical fantasy to begin with, but suddenly they are concerned with how much skin fighters show, but for some reason they only cover up female fighters and not male ones. Yeah, right, I don't buy the realism and practicality excuse they given for one second. I believe that is 100% percent a political decision in line with 3rd wave feminism that ironically hates attractive females and the men who show them attention.
Just because some people who speak about de-politicizing games do it for wrong reasons doesn't mean the issue doesn't exist. It pisses me off too, when people claim the Last of Us 2 is political. Representation alone is not political. The whole game is built around ambiguity and some people cannot see that even when it dances on their nose.
Everybody wants fleshed out and comlpex characters, you are not alone in that. It's very presumptuous to assume others just want bikini armor and no personality.
in the end video games are an outlet to do things we would not do in real life. And some devs are trying to deprive us from doing just that. Because they assume they are better than us and want to teach us a moral lesson. But our morals are all and well, we know the difference between a game that in unreal and the real world which is real. Having female characters in a fantasy fighting game show skin doesn't make me respect women in the real world any less.