I don’t believe my post has in any way detracted from female representation. As I said I think gender neutral stories can coexist. I think FF14 does a great job in that regard. Powerful male and female characters not having to battle for screen time or representation.
I would say this though, that even though a majority of storylines featured women this expansion, I feel bad still because the writing was still bad for women as well compared to other expansions. My wife and I both found the story disinteresting due to the writing, where expansions like BFA could at least keep attention.
So my opinion is that in actuality, it was bad for everyone, but especially bad for men with poor representation and if they were present they were presented in a mostly negative or they were the villain manner.