The faddish use of any word to avoid saying “he, his or him” makes the article unintelligible.
I used to complain about conversations (often with women) in which a story would be told about Sue, Mary, Betty and Diane and the story would go something like: “She told her she was coming but then she called and said she shouldn’t wait but she was thinking it was her fault and she made her get upset.”
Hard to follow.
Now stories can involve a group of both men and women and it’s all: “They did this to them and they thought they might not go unless it upset them. And they agreed with that but they didn’t.”
Hopeless.
Exactly, the default masculine gender pronoun is just to upsetting to snowflakes, I guess.