You seem like someone who has a lot to say about social issues but I still fail to understand what this has to do with Yamato vs Carrot joining. According to some interpretations, Yamato is trans or non binary. Wouldn't this give her extra points from your.perspective.?
As I mentionned in a twitter thread. Carrot V Yamato is actually not just a fight between two characters.
It's a fight between two type of fanbase (with exceptions on both side)
The Carrot fanbase is strong inclusive and factually more quite. The fanbase focus on the character of Carrot, her personnality (with nsfw exceptions).
The Yamato fanbase is not as strong but a lot more toxic and noisy. The fanbase focus on the lore of Yamato, her physic and not her personnality .
So from my experience and my point of view it's more than just a fight between character, it's a political fight. A political fight between a strong yet sensible part of the fanbase and themore toxic one. (at least on this forum)
Yamato and Carrot are both amazing characters. But the fans don't follow that pattern. And like I said, there are exception on both side, I took a stand a month ago against the most toxic part of Carrot's fanbase.