^Censorship is a one thing, but Hoyo always was using Yuri as more of eye candy and fanservice than serious thing in their games even before they caught the eye of an Chinese censorship. I mean Sakura isn't mentioned once in a story proper, even when we got all that story of Otto and Kallen. Bronya's and Seele's relationship also reverted to "sisters" even before Genshin brought them to light. Early mangas and story were yurish because they had Himejoshi as an writer (and rogue localizers - Siegfried never called Kiana lesbian in original version), but later they get rid of her and tone it down greatly. And don't get me with that one god-awful Herscherr in GGZ manga.
There is also that one interview, lost to time, where DaWei asked about relationships between character told that they are friends, and we're envisioned as "waifus" for players akin to dating-sim.
They also don't want to repeat bunny girls incident. If that get someone mad, think what they would do if any girl was "stolen" from male MC, by other girl no less.
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