Progressivism does in fact worship ugliness. They call beauty "heteronormative standards", or sometimes "eurocentric" when it's framed racially (white bad, non-white features good).
Here is a simple exercise, without knowing absolutely anything about this game tell me the political ideology which animates it simply from looking at this character's hair:
It's activism through character design, and it's perhaps the most important part of wokeness, the same way architecture is the highest field of artistic expression.
There are many reasons for it, some of them being the so-called 'normalization of masculine features in a female body' (troons), which is why the man-jaw meme exists now, or why female characters are depicted as overly hairy, etc.
But it goes much deeper than this, it is a literal rebellion against what we consider beauty itself. It's also tied to the proggressive and communist desire to destroy the family unit as well, in a roundabout way (family represents normalcy, and without family you are more susceptible to following the State's orders).
Leftists see 'beauty' as simply another social construct, or at least these modern woke-religion ones do, and they believe that, like gender (another social construct), it can be manipulated and changed for the supposed betterment of mankind. People can simply be trained to like women who look like men, and they can be trained to despise beauty, because beauty is rare and thus exclusive, whereas ugliness is common and thus inclusive.
