I’ve said this before and I’m going to say this again. Dollars to doughnuts, none of you are History Ph.Ds or have any specialized knowledge to justify/establish your claims about these times and these peoples. What you think of as “history” was written through the lens of the imperialism/chauvinism/racism/misogyny of the past 150 years; it is couched in political myths. Therefore, arguments about “immersion” and “accuracy” and such nonsense are political arguments, not arguments based in fact. Excluding genders from a game based in a historical time-period is a political decision, not a decision about verisimilitude. (Which is not to say that including genders isn’t also a political act, but recognize that either way you’re making a political decision, not a historical one.)
Actual historians and archaeologists are making discoveries every month that put the lie to these political myths.
And no, we’re not going to re-litigate this here.