Otome does generally mean romance for straight women, BL and GL have their own distinctive genres, but i actually agree with you on this one, you can choose your pronouns so i don't consider this a classic otome, however keep in mind the writers, sometimes its hard as a writer to write a type of romance you have no experience or exposer with, as a writer i focus more on straight stories or BL, it would take me serious deep dives to even attempt a GL romance