Would make more sense? It very obvious from the game that Abby has been preparing for four years for the moment she finds Joel, at which point she promptly tortures him. Prior to that (and several times after) we are told that she'd do anything, including forsaking her friends to go at her revenge, alone if need be. Being physically fit is one of the best things you can be if you want to trek an unknown distance through zombieland to overpower someone who, by pure genetics, is larger and stronger then you at the baseline.
Your criticism here is basically that you don't think Abby being musclebound as a way to show how consumed by her revenge she is not good because it could be shown another way. This is true, but it would also be much more work to repeatedly show her sharpshootinh (especially in a game where the long range gun is given to Ellie, not Abby) or doing bomb stuff (which doesn't work either with the gameplay for Abby). Showing her being buffed out and then showing her training regime and her access to a state of the art gym is much better storytelling in many ways, conservation of detail and as a constant testament to her drive and tenacity chief among them.
Come on, at least come clean with the fact that you find diversity bad. That's what your previous post implies and your continued criticism of Abby says. It is even obvious with how you think "everyone" likes traditional fanservice femininity but not "everyone" likes diversity. This isn't true and speaks of a very restricted point of view from the stereotypical "gamer dude"-angle. There are many of us who see stuff like Bayonetta or B2, roll our eyes and give the games a pass because we find the pandering obnoxious.
So basically, your opinion is opinion but when someone disagrees they want censorship and other nastiness. I am glad to see your application of metrics are consistent...
I think actual diversity (not of physical traits but of char types) when done well is great.
I think in this day and age it's more "diverse" to have a weak female character rather than a strong one. Definitely in western media. The strong woman who don't need no man is more overdone than the tsundere is in anime at this point.
One of my fav games of all time you play as a wolf for crying out loud. If I was anchored to the generic white brown haired dudes as you seem to believe I was I wouldn't care for all these zany games out there.
Sharpshooting or bombs is a more effective way of taking out someone in a zombie apocalypse setting storywise. The gameplay stuff is not an issue. There is no divine decree that Ellie should have the long range gun, that's likely something decided after they set out with the plan of making Abby like how she was. It's kind of an arbitrary thing.
Also, more fundamentally, it's hilarious that you treat feminine women as all being one thing, that Abby isn't. In fact, there is tons of diversity of femininity, much more in fact than the ways in which masculinely powerful women tend to be depicted as. If you care about general diversity and not just one very laser-focused form of it you would see that.
And I dunno where censorship came into the picture. I just think they make bad games or make games that were good into bad ones. Or at least partially so since this is just one component of a larger whole. My initial post was about how we have conflicting ideals and not one ideal that is good and holy like how it is being talked about.