Ngl, I'm getting pretty jaded at this point. People pushing for it always come across like having a female protag only is somehow a terrible thing and bigoted, along with other nonsense. I don't have a problem with VNs having the choice from the jump or w/e, my problem is with the blatant hypocrisy of it all.
Also, the misuse of tags is a huge pet peeve of mine. This isn't limited to the Otome tag, but also the yuri, yaoi, and bara tags, among others. Examples:
Bara: MxM only, male target demographic.
Otome: FxM only, female target demographic.
People will slap multiple tags (otome, yuri, yaoi) on something when none of them apply because they just smushed everything in, and a more general tag would make sense.
I could go on, but I'll spare you my ranting. >_>