Gender Locks Have Revealed the Worst in Players.

[VirusOnline]

So really, it's just a matter of people hyping themselves up over something they were never promised for way too long... only to be let down in the end and look for somebody to blame.

Yes people were hyped up for good reason - genderlocks were promised never ever to be a thing again. Thus, we expected males.
It wasn't "hyped". It was expected.

There was a reason that they in turn expected blowback before even having announced it.