Annoyed by the critics that suddenly feel betrayed by the series because they had convinced themselves the games weren't sexist even when it couldn't have been more obvious. People tried to tell them Bayonetta was misogynist as fuck but they were dismissed as "sex-negative" or whatever.
I never played it but I always kind of thought the male gaze was so excessive and so unapologetic and so completely over the top that it could only be read as satire. Plus - Gun high heels. Who doesn't want gun heels?
I thought it was always very obviously played for laughs as well. I suppose it just turns out the male devs happened to be unironically horny and kinda creepy while making their satirically horny game
Wasn't Bayonetta's character designer a woman? Obviously she was designing a character for a game made in large part by dudes going :awooga: but still
Satire truly does require a clarity of purpose it turns out.