Ruby Rose is leaving the show

I don't get the hype about Ruby either. She was just a music show host down here in Australia. She isn't a very good actress nor does she have any charisma that makes you want to watch her.

In a showbiz world, everything about the pitch for the movie would have sounded great:

-Superhero stuff can be a career-maker these days, giving actors a tonne of money and steady work in an unsteady industry
-The woke/Feminist agenda is very trendy and popular with Hollywood and many others in the entertainment world. It's unlikely that anybody in that world would perceive the backlash/anti-SJW/Feminist groups to be that large.

She also probably didn't read the script. They probably greenlit the show to capitalize on the DC TV universe general popularity and success, then drew up their top choices for Batwoman and when Merryl Streep wasn't available they called up Rose and pitched her "You get to be Batwoman! Here's the character, here's a breakdown of the comics, etc." She likely signed on hearing general pitches and plotlines, but not the actual, finished script (which she might've had input in, depending on how much weight she had in the negotiations).

She likely was digging the Feminist Bat-comic angle and didn't read past that.

Or, y'know, it was a bunch of money.

It's also possible that she just doesn't have good taste in scripts. Sean Connery passed on Lord of the Rings and The Matrix before finally picking League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

LMAO