I can take a little bit of woke if the story is good.
I don’t even think it’s necessarily woke. Again Shalla-Bal has been in the canon a long time. Her getting power has been in the canon a long time. So none of this is particularly new. It’s no less a part of the story than the Wandering Jew aspect of Silver Surfer. Now I do think there’s a deliberate attempt to reach out to the female audience. They started that casting Pedro Pascal (who’s HUGELY popular with female nerds, and also very popular with male nerds, and also a damn fine actor) as Reed Richards, and probably looked at the canon and said “what else can we do to draw that audience.” So the only real question left is will they give them a good story. They have a minimum 2 great actors signed up, now give them a worthy story.