At the beginning, I hated every moment I had to play Ciri in Witcher 3, in fact I stopped playing it second time because I couldn't endure the time I have to play Ciri again,
I don't hate female characters, I even selected female character for more than once in my Fallout 4 endless cycle.
Now CPR is trying to force uglified version of one of the most hated characters in the entire Frenchies. You don't have bitter medicine to shove down our throat, you have a tool to entertain us, if you can't entertain us we can go somewhere else.