It was one article in a book of essays by a variety of authors, including old school luminaries. Obviously lots of different POV. So yes I completely agree.
Yeah. The company is not responsible for every opinion piece that appears in one of its books. That's pretty much a disclaimer that appears in most media. That the opinion therein is not necessarily shared by the company that published that media.
Most books carry such a disclaimer inside of their cover page. In fact, I struggle to find a book that does not contain one.
So yeah. I think that makes it even more excessive that Kobold got labeled a woke company for an article that was nothing more offensive than literally anything that any other game company has printed.
But again that list isn't an objective one. It's a hit-list created to roast literally anything seen as being in opposition to the position of its author. It's a hateful screed that takes wide swipes at game publishers for simply printing something the author of said list opposed.
Such a list is akin to creating a list of books to burn based on the author's loosest whims. There is no objectivity involved in any of it. Just hate.