This is purely conjecture, I have absolutely zero knowledge of this is fully accurate, but this is how I understand it.
In Japan yuri as a genre has a lot of very specific tropes and cliches tied to it that specifically make it unappealing to wider audiences and that is what she's trying to distance herself from, not the GL aspect of it, just being pigeon-holed into a very specific set of rules or expectations for her story.
It's the same principle as whenever a modern horror movie is announced, it's generally expected to fail. But then you'll have genre busters like Cabin in the Woods or IT 2017.
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