Back when the first concept art came out a guy on Reddit posted about how he'd been in one of the focus groups for this game. He said that despite some thinking that it was going to be a story about racism and the far-right, that wasn't the impression he got from the game when he saw it. Rather what he saw was a game that leaned more into the David Koresh/Jim Jones direction of religious cults. I don't see why they have to alter the story they want to tell in order to tell something that you or Waypoint want to hear. It's not their fault that people are way too anxious to jump to conclusions about what a game is or isn't about.
