Having worked in game development, I can totally see this happening “by accident” - but it would have required the designer working on the item to have ceased work on it mid-development and not looked at it again (which could easily have happened if they were no longer working at the studio, or got moved to something else mid-task, for example), but then whoever they reported to didn’t follow up on the task or check it, and then the testers either didn’t test it, didn’t look closely enough at it to notice and flag it (or, worse, thought it was fine), or they flagged it, but no one responded to that flag… all of which would have happened if no one gave a damn about it in the first place.
So it’s still a result of racism, only a more subtle variety than if it had been deliberate. Either that, or they’re so generally overworked the development process has broken down, but it’s odd that it only broke down noticeably for this.
