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Max is a returning character but Chloe is not. Since players can choose which ending they picked from the original (which was realistically only one option unless you were a really selfish person, either kill millions of people or kill Chloe), and since Chloe is not a returning character, they needed to explain why Chloe is not there. It is either implied or directly stated (I havent played it so I don't know exactly) that Max and Chloe separated before the events of this latest game. Some of the LiS fanbase is taking this as some sort of erasure of a lesbian couple, when all it is is a way to explain why that character is not a returning character in the new game. They are taking it like it is a personal attack.
Maybe they should have just killed Chloe anyway offscreen instead. That character was a really bad person and a nuisance to society in the original game, even though I liked her as a character in the game. She has been very problematic to the game's fanbase, where a minor option in the original game spawned this very loud group of people saying that minor option equated to the only acceptable canon storyline for the game. The community is honestly very annoying about it.
The Max/Chloe shipper community, I completely agree. I'm a huge fan of the game series but I kinda blame that group for LiS2 not being super successful, and I would have loved a 3rd one with that kind of scope!
If by LiS2 you mean Before the Storm, that was only okay IMO. Not bad, but not great either. Very average.
If by LiS2 you mean the one where the two guys are running from the cops, I had no interest in it. Partially because it didn't continue the story of Max (at the time LiS2 came out, I still was interested in a continuation of the original games ending), but also because it seemed to focus on social/ideological/identity politics from the marketing. The first game didn't really mention that stuff at all, it was a story that was mostly devoid of it. I don't engage with that stuff even here on Lemmy, I block everything political left and right, so I just avoided LiS2 altogether. It just rubbed me the wrong way, the marketing gave me the feeling the game was going to try to tell me how to think, so I just didn't have any interest in it. Maybe other people are like me and didn't buy it for the same reason, who knows?
After LiS2, I just lost total interest in the entire LiS series. The community didn't help either, since as I mentioned before, they were pretty insufferable.
Very healthy decision on your part 👍