I'm going to disagree with you there and it does come down to personal taste. Fact of the matter is if there was actually an issue with the characters, they would have changed them by now, so you should probably count your taste on the fringe of what actually sells. Most of the time when i see posts about effeminate characters, that means old and ugly which will absolutely NOT sell. The characters fall somewhere between real and slightly unrealistic so they be modified in either direction and that's been going on since I started with M4. That said, the characters are flexible enough to make them into what you want from that base. I like M8 more than I did M7, probably cause he has a thicker build; but their characters have had room to be improved by end users, especially with changing skins and adding body and facial hair from the current and previous generations.