Yes… BUT.
Gaming culture is historiclly pretty infamously steeped in a miasma of toxic masculinity, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, and a whole bunch-of-other-phobias. WoW’s fanbase has a reputation of being particularly bad about it. Most game studios (including Blizzard) have made it a policy to avoid rocking the boat on such matters as much as possible. Fairly recently, however, such topics have become a lot less culturally taboo to approach, and thus publishers now feel comfortable exploring these sorts of matters more.
Out of all the recontextualizations they could make, this one is pretty quiet really, and has some logic to it.