I'm reminded of a story, which I will leave generic: for a new product, there was a question about the lead character. The writers wanted a female lead, but corporate wasn't sure it would be marketable to little boys (a core demographic). They used test audiences of both boys and girls to...
In the particular instance, I'm going to give everything the benefit of the doubt and assume modding dad had only awesome reasons for wanting to provide the altered experience, and more power to that.
In general... eeh? I've always been more a fan of the JRPG experience (Story-driven, fixed...