The core of the narrative around The Woke being mad about Marvel Rivals is really about Concord - you know the hero shooter for "modern audiences" that shut down and issued refunds in less than a month, and then claimed that the game failed because the hero shooter market is just over-saturated? Except we're just a couple of months later and here's a new hero shooter that's very successful, which challenges the developer/media narrative about why Concord failed so abysmally.
It doesn't challenge the narrative. The market is oversaturated. Concord wasn't free.
People like to pretend it's cause it was woke or ugly or bad, but concord could have been the best, prettiest thing ever and it still would have bombed. Because it wasn't free.
A competitive game lives and dies on the back of the community size and engagement, and concord entered a market where every major competitor was free, and charged a retail price.
So these new FREE entries don't lessen the truth about the market being oversaturated, they just don't represent any risk for a consumer to try them while they're new and hot.