I do not mind if iLara was the MC. however, we have to keep in mind that there are others who do not like to be female protagonist, they rather be male protagonist.
There's also people who
like to play a female protagonist, but don't like the fact that most female protagonist games seem to boil down to "watch the main character get corrupted, degraded, and abused", as opposed to games where the female main character has agency, control, and can go through the game choosing who to be with and what happens to her.
It's a discussion that tends to come up in female protagonist game threads - usually you'll hear people asking if the game has a dedicated lesbian path (because they don't want the character they're controlling to get fucked by tons of dudes), or if the player can decide for themselves who the MC hooks up with or not.
A lot of it comes down to the difference between players who mostly just want to watch someone else's story and players who kind of want to self-insert a bit and make it their own story.