Women wearing heels in wildly inappropriate situations is pretty common media. The number of times I have seen some secret assassin, bodyguard, super hero archetype wearing impractical footwear seems to outnumber the times they are wearing an athletic shoe.
What’s with the vilification of people with a foot fetish anyway? Seems like they’re always getting called out, ragged on, and otherwise treated as filth. Its just the human body, idk what the big deal is.
I think it's exposure. It's a relatively low-taboo fetish, and (unlike most others) it's acceptable/possible to post/find feet on traditional social media. It's possible to post feet pics and accidentally find yourself engaged with a sexual subculture you were not intending to encourage.
I don't recall vilifying anyone because they had a foot fetish. I do, however, think it's ridiculous to push your fetish into the official art direction of virtually all the female characters of an entire game.
Splash arts generally. Almost every single one is wearing heels. Once you notice it you can't stop seeing it.