Well, yes. Pretty sure the issue brought up in the video wasn't "false marketing" or whatever, for one thing, and their specific reasoning is one of the points of disagreement here. For another, even putting aside that these are people who review games for a living and are likely to have as expansive a view of the industry as most anyone here, SE's marketing of the game being pretty bad is hardly such a massive problem that you should suddenly lose the ability to at least appreciate that there are meaningful dimensions to Kamala being spotlighted.
Thinking that it's a shame for such a massive channel to come at this with this sort of narrow, close-minded, Bad Nerd Culture perspectiva strikes me less as "choosing to die on a hill" and more "having some pretty basic standards."
They wanted to play Avengers as the Avengers. And for a lot of the game they weren't playing as the Avengers. That's the whole complaint. Again, SE marketed Kamala terribly. I watched all the war tables and trailers. If I wasn't already a Kamala fan there's no chance I'd know by watching those videos.
It's easy for them to assume you know the rest of the characters, given their relevance in pop culture. They should've been hammering home how awesome and important Kamala is from June 2019 to now. But they didn't, and we know why they didn't.
Put it this way: imagine playing Spider-Man Miles Morales and you start as Miles for the first 10minutes of the game. Then for the next 3 hours you're Peter Parker trying to talk Miles into being Spider-Man. How annoying would that be? And that's the most recognizable superhero on the planet. Most people don't know Ms. Marvel.
We can agree to disagree, but I think you're making this out to be more than it is.
Also this is a minor thing, but this bit:
even putting aside that these are people who review games for a living and are likely to have as expansive a view of the industry as most anyone here
shouldn't be assumed about anyone. Their whole shtick is that she doesn't know a lot about games, doesn't really play many games, and watches her boyfriend play. There are people who have been in this industry their entire post-college lives, do real reporting, have insider information, and still go on podcasts and get shit wrong or don't know things we all know.
Edit: Apologies for the paragraphs. Just wanted to be thorough in my explanation.