I think people here are giving the devs too much benefits of the doubt. There's just doing the typical mayo thing soying over some slum in a cringey form of poverty porn. You see the same thing with Westerners' fascination of favelas. It's just the videogame equivalent of taking a black-and-white picture of some starving child from Africa and trying to make a dumb point about how they're "spreading awareness" when everyone involved (except for the starving child of course) is mostly getting off about how they're so fortunate to live in the West and not have to live in a so-called "third world shithole" like this Black kid who they do not actually give an iota of a fuck about.

I see Westerners fascination with Kowloon Walled City as nothing more than poverty porn by Westerners, and given the present state of the world, a form of copium as well. "Remember when Hong Kongers knew their place and had to choose between living in nice Western buildings build by us Westerners or living in some shitty slum build during the Qing dynasty."

There's the reason why Kowloon Walled City was bulldozed once the British were kicked out of Hong Kong.