None of it HAS to be politics unless people wanted it to be so, just so they could attack it.
Well, other than the 'The Force is Female' tshirts and various interviews with directors and writers, etc.
The people yelling 'no politics!' are usually the ones upset if a new story comes out and has an openly gay character, or someone gender fluid.
Let's say Larian made a character in BG3 that was gender fluid, just because that's who they were. They did not retconn anything. Whole new character. People would STILL scream they were 'just added for the 'woke people'' and 'pandering'.
The complaints come from how the character is done, not because of whatever minority status, etc, the character has. There have been lots of popular movies with strong female characters, for example, but if all the previews and interviews focus on a strong, independent woman lead and how the film has a feminist message and anybody who doesn't like it is a misogynist, it's probably not going to be a good movie.
As far as Larian's characters, there was approximately one person since D:OS 2 was released who complained about all of the companions being bisexual. It wasn't hamfisted in and announced at every opportunity to virtue signal. As most people realised, if they noticed it at all, that was done because there were not enough companions to cover every combination of romance options otherwise, and no reason to artificially restrict player choices even if that would be more realistic.
You've never heard of it, because I invented it and it never caught on
I've heard 'professionally offended', as well as 'perpetually offended'.
