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I wrote what I am complaining about and why. I even wrote that this particular thing could have been historically accurate, but was not explained. So it left the viewer wondering why it was there, and it was presented in a way that protrayed remote villagers in a dark ages setting as citicen of the world with modern attitudes. And they could have easily explained it away without trying.

Adding modern things in such a way is cheap and immersion breaking. For movies and retellings it is also cultural appropriation, if you change certain things.

There is another way! Like they did with Sherlock Holmes, when they just made a retelling in modern times. There is that tv series, where "Watson" is a women and happens in the USA. And the other one that told the classic tales, but with a modern setup, including smartphones.

I am playing games and watching movies for entertainment, and not to get spoonfed the agenda of the creators of those things. If it serves no story purpose, what purpose does it serve? And those things are fully artificial. Everything serves a purpose. My interpretation is, that it serves to show off the virtue of the creators. To "educate" the public with their values and agenda. That is manipulation. I do not want to be manipulated, no matter how noble someone might think the cause is.

Also I have the opinion, that if outside factors like agenda of the develoeprs decide the story elements, that quality suffers. The things are not written to improve or tell the story. They are written or changed to achieve some goal. Like to be compliant to this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority  . It is also the concept why this here is usually not adding to quality  https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Executive+Meddling&ia=web

So, no, I was not complaining that a fairy tale was not historically accurate. I was complaining that they changed certain things for the mere sake of checking some checkmarks.

Now, if you were to make a game/movie about little red and the resident tomboy nicknamed wolfgirl and their secret relationship as a plot device, since the religous people would not allow it, that would serve a story purpose.