It's extremely disappointing to watch him take the worst attitude problems that Western devs have had for a decade or so and bring them to his title. He SUPPOSEDLY wants everything blamed on him, even though every time players' criticism of Wuk or the writing comes up, he ducks behind Sena and goes "You wouldn't want to be a transphobic death threat sender, would you?" Absolutely cowardly behavior that dismisses the problems that everyone had with the game, not just people that use the English localization, and frankly insulting to people that have supported his creation and career for years. Is this going to be his new tactic rather than producing content people like, instead phoning it in and hiring abrasive people from politically expedient backgrounds so he can accuse critics of his subpar work of being bigots? Whatever happened to "Yoshi-P only cares about the Japanese players?" They dislike Wuk as well and he can't hide behind Sena when addressing their problems with her. Also, having Ishikawa along for the ride seems like a sort of admission that this expac is becoming a PR disaster and bringing out the old and trusted faces to try to run interference, a lot like Blizzard loves to do with Metzen.

Why double down on more time with Wuk trying to rehab her when you have a character that people really like in Erenville right there? When he's not doing anything other than trying to deal with his trauma, while Wuk supposedly has a whole continent to run? She already came off like a self-absorbed narcissist whose interest in others only goes as far as fueling her whims. What benefit to this image they're trying to cultivate is having her prance around swinging an axe at various ne'er-do-wells when her people are still recovering from a violent and brutal extraplanar invasion, and the other world that got grafted onto her domain as a result of said invasion has an actual baby as a puppet ruling in place of their beloved but recently departed leader? Does he think having more "Speak with Wuk Lamat" makes her look better in that respect?

At this point he should just feel lucky that so many people are upset because that means they still care. That's not going to be a guarantee going forward if they don't start getting things moving in a good direction again.