While I don’t like neutering an artist’s vision in the name of conformity or commercial pressure, it’s generally a wise business practice to avoid deliberately offending your potential audience. I suppose a healthy gaming franchise needs new users to thrive, and maybe toning down the excess will broaden the game’s appeal.
As long as the originals remain accessible in some capacity for posterity, developers should be free to craft their evolving IP however they see fit. I’d just hope Reverge Labs is doing this because it’s genuinely where they want to take the series.
https://www.liberties.eu/en/stories/self-censorship/43569