That’s buttercream frosted cake delicious, my friend. Unless you don’t like that. In which case, substitute your preference. 

I agree with this part of your comment:

My sources who work for Sony (PlayStation in San Mateo, CA) tell me this entire project was thrown together in a timeline of 6 months and that they were under intense pressure from the top brass to get it out before Christmas.

Let’s not go that far — the PS1 Classic feeling like a cynical, rushed attempt to cash in on the NES/SNES Classic’s success doesn’t cancel out Sony’s incredible stable of critically acclaimed and commercially successful first-party games, which has been its biggest advantage all generation.

I’m fairly certain that Netflix used the initial four episodes as a pilot to gauge the interest for a longer season/full pickup.

Count yourself lucky that they at least mostly based him on his later appearances rather than his earliest

It's not politics, it's people being shitty towards women with think veiled arguments. Women are underrepresented in games and it hurts nothing to have them as generals. 

Look you limp dick turd of a human, everybody’s ignoring your dumbass reasons because they’re dumb. What are you doing...RP’ing a strategy game? Really getting into the period and shit? No? It’s a game? Getting worked up because there’s a chance of generating female generals? Oh fuck...feminazi’s coming after you!