I'm not going to expect this to read as anything more than "we're going to put more queer characters into our stories", which I doubt will address any of the problems with or otherwise elevate the storytelling of Magic.

There's nothing bigoted about calling a duck for a duck. But you're right, as long as wotc gives me some shallow gay pandering then I should just sit back and shut up so white women who fight on my behalf can keep patting themselves on the back while they continue to ignore actual problems. The death of the lesbian dream team is definitely the central reason why War of the Spark failed to be a satisfying ending to a story that was begging to be put out of its misery, and certainly the main concern that needed to be addressed.

No, I'm all for standing against Chinese market pressure and standing for your ideals, I just feel like a small subset of topics get the vast majority of attention from wotc publicly.

And maybe that's wrong, maybe wotc has made an official statement on what canonically happened on Ikoria, or apologized for their disregard of their setting's established principles, or acknowledged that maybe Bolas's arc was a mess with a lukewarm ending, and I've just never seen them because they haven't been brought to my attention in the same way.

I think its very limiting to say LGBTQ characters can only be in romantic stories and of the few LGBTQ characters there are in magic who been featured in the lore, only Chandra and Nissa had a romantic story arc.