Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Amnmaat]

I don't think it's that simple. SE won't care what Yoshida does as long as it produces profit with the allocated budget he gets from them. whether they're called missing genders or new races has no effect on the decision, since it's still the same cost and development process regardless of what they're called. He can perhaps convince them that it will bring good press for the game after the backlash. But good press won't bring profit like actual game content. So he has to figure out how to address the cost issue without affecting the other game content, because content drought is far more worse for the game than not having them added.

Adding Baanga goes through a whole different process than adding missing genders of an existing race.
New race has to go through Marketing, Research and development, Data analytics, Brand assessment, and other systems of review. Missing genders of an existing and well studied race is an easier push.