I finished s1 IBO and realized what bothers me in the latest Gundam series: they have something woke in them, but refuse to go further with it.
GQX has diverse cast with female characters who have active roles and not sexualized/tradwife-ified, even tries to say something about poverty and police, but doesn't actually say anything meaningful.
WfM is gay and, again, has diverse cast with solid female characters. But doesn't say anything on how corporations rule the world in Ad Stella or how marriage is actually oppressive in that context (I mean, at the start, marriage is some sort of a business deal, but later, without any systemic changes, it became the ultimate proof of Suletta's and Miorine's love??) (not to mention that they completely forgave their abusive parents).
IBO understands poverty, exploitation and other woke marxist things, but god knows, if I want to enjoy it, feminism has to leave my body.
The worst part is that it's not coherent. It feels like they want to be woke, but not too much, it's either DEI-woke or marxist-woke, but never at the same time - gqx tried to be both, but I guess multiverse shenanigans are more exciting.
What's interesting, older series, IMO, don't have this problem. Maybe their levels of wokeness are generally lower, but at least they're more coherent.