The Kyrstal incident was pretty fucking despicable, but I'm not surprised.
It was more that they weren't going to do that game PERIOD but as a Starfox game it was suddenly marketable.
It actually didn't have anything to do with sexism in this case.
I expected more, but it looks like shes playing it safe
It is because she doesn't know what she is talking about for the most part, or at least not the amount of knowledge and experience required for such a topic.
For example she listed Ellaine from Monkey Island as a damsel when she is exactly the opposite of a damsel and has proven herself extremely competent everytime with the only time she was in danger in the first three games was when Guybrush himself put her in that danger (The forth game puts her to the side because she has to run for office). With Guybrush actually being more of a hinderance to her and that being the major roadblock to their relationship. In another game Ellaine would be the main character, it is sort of the point of her character and the joke is that Guybrush thinks himself the hero but Ellaine doesn't need him and he only serves to mess up her own plans.
There are a lot of good things she could have discussed while being fair (Other M! ohh dear goodness Other M) and showing the disparity between male and female characters even when playing the same roles. For example the difference between male and female damsels.
For example in Kings Quest series one of the Damsels is the character of Edgar a human appearing Fairy who is inlove with the princess Rosella. Inspite needing to be saved, though not actively, he is projected as competent and is active during the events that follow. While Princess Peach, however, while having the same role has a much more passive role whenever she isn't the main character.
The expectation is mostly that a male damsel is still expected to do something in his predicament while the same expectation is not put on female characters.
The exception and derrivative is Princess Zelda who either has no role or who is one of the major manipulators of the game behind the scene, whos shift from passive to more active roles in the games she appears in could be a sign of changing roles of women in videogames with her role only being limited to the fact that Link is the player character, something which videogames can seldom break and do so at their own peril.