This poll from the old thread seemed to encapsulate things pretty well.
You have about half the voters who don’t like the idea of genderlock but will at least look at a game with it, and a third who reject it outright. Only 80 people out of 400 didn’t care about their MCs gender.
Also, can we revive the use of the acronym C/HOG to describe the singular entity of both labels? I’m a big fan of this. Soooo-eee!