With all do respect, I don’t really see why Link having gender options should ever really be necessary. I mean, Link is already androgynous looking enough to where his gender already seems ambiguous to some degree. Even when the game was revealed back in 2014 people thought that this Link was female, or stated that he…

Having a role reversal just for it’s own sake would be pointless and would hardly be a step towards being progressive. A protagonist’s gender shouldn’t matter to the player as long as the game is good, and the Zelda games don’t necessarily need to be an exception to that.