My problem with it is it's starting to feel like tokenism on a mass scale. It's not just "we need a black guy" anymore. Now they need to make sure they cover everyone, and if they don't then they're sexist/racist/transphobic/homophobic. The humor is also suffering because a vocal minority and saying that certain jokes cross a line and insult a certain group of people (and often the ones complaining aren't even part of the "victimized group").
There's a proper way for inclusion, but you can't include everyone in every movie. Not only would that make for a large cast off people who likely add nothing to the story, but it would take resources away from actually making good characters . I'm not saying characters from minorities can't be good characters, though; I'm saying that when you're so focused on making sure you have all of your token characters for virtue points, you're not going to be spending too much time on character development.
But the biggest problem with this mass tokenism is it is devaluing to those ethnicities to simply include them for a quota. I mean, that was a huge point in Kelly Marie Tran's op-ed: Asians aren't your background characters to include for virtue points. (On that note, had anyone noticed how Hollywood has been making less and less Asian-starring movies? There used to be tons of movies that starred Asians, but I haven't seen one since the last Rush Hour movie)
As far as the kids scene in TLOU 2 is concerned, I was only disgusted when that other girl wiped her nasty, sweaty face on the main character. I threw up in my mouth a little when that happened. Otherwise, I have no problem with the actual kiss. It felt no more cringey or forced than literally any other kiss in gaming.
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