Diversity and options to explore widely different concepts is fun in and of itself. It cannot be measured in popularity or as some market survey because it is fundamental to the creative process of character creation, even to those who ultimately choose something traditional. The existence of variety around your character provides the sense of your character being someone unique.
The formula isn't to simply fill every space with something that satisfies the majority, because in doing so you destroy the illusion of things being unique and special and the entire storytelling you are trying to get people to engage with.
I have specifically stated that I am willing to compromise. I do not care if niche options are added, so long as the more mainstream options are also present. Yet if those mainstream options are absent altogether, then I am not particularly interested in that particular breed of 'diversity' as it rather blatantly becomes a matter of spiteful erasure and pandering.
