It blows my mind that anyone at EA seemed to think that a famously homophobic and misogynistic regime would allow them to continue developing games that featured LGBT characters

It's EA? that's literally what they've always done. Not to mention bioware was already stripped for parts years ago and failing miserably.

Star Trek Online exec scorns publishers who close teams like BioWare

Honestly how is Larian even remotely comparable to the Bioware of today/yesterday. Larian right now is about where Bioware has been when they made ME1, before all the EA enshittification chased away all the talent.

Well, that makes me feel better about the health/longevity of STO.