As per my last comment. I don’t think you can magically wash away the objectification of a chainmail bikini by putting some good writing next to it.
While you are correct, this proves my point exactly. A non-manga non-anime person like Luke sees this shit and is just like “you pervs trying to make excuses for your problematic shit.” They’re not playing this game to find out that the character is actually empowering or whatever. They see a tit window on a dress on the cover of the game and they NOPE the fuck out of there.
If you need to go waist deep in knowledge to see how “no, it’s actually NOT problematic this time” then it’s problematic.