Which leads straight into the argument about artistic integrity vs. social mores. Specifically; should creators alter their work to fit someone else's idea of what it "should" be? If so, who gets to decide which ideas they should kowtow to?

That's rhetorical, incidentally. I don't have an answer.

What I do find interesting is the inversion of the trope. The original list lists every single bad thing that happens to a female character. The WiR trope is based on the idea of women being so vulnerable that any villain who goes after them must really be a monster. Nowadays, creators are expected to go out of their way to avoid harm or injury to female characters, barring a range of "correct" ways to do so.