Man, for being the one who wanted a playable beast race added to the game, Yoshi (and the dev team overall) really treats Hrothgar as an afterthought. :/
I hope you're right. But, judging from their track record with how they treat Hrothgar, I still harbor a healthy amount of skepticism. I'm still relatively hopeful that female Hrothgar will make the situation better for the race overall, but we will have to wait and see.
That pun made me giggle, by the way.