I smell another Ghostbusters fiasco. 
Not likely. The Ghostbusters crap was basically the first movie reshot with the gender roles of all of the major characters reversed. When word of that got out, it killed any favorable feelings about the film. It wasn't about gender, it was about a lack of originality and, frankly, what I saw as an insult to Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, and Dan Akroyd. It was as if someone said "gee, that first Ghostbusters wasn't bad,m but we can make a better version than they did by just switching out the genders of the major characters." Yeah, no.
This film isn't some reboot, but another planned piece of this puzzle that Marvel designed and appears to have carried out to perfection. Each movie ties to the others in such a way that you don't necessarily need to see them all. But, like a good book, the chapters are such that reading one makes you want to read the next chapter, and these films make you want to see the next. And, since this is a tie-in to what they have planned in the Endgame film, it's going to make a bunch of money because of that.
On the gender-switch for the main character, there seems to be some confusion. As someone who was once the skinny kid who spent a fair amount of time reading comic books in the 70s. She was an Air Force officer who gained powers from an alien (male) who was called Captain Marvel. She was originally called Ms. Marvel. They killed off the male character, and the female took on the title of Captain Marvel about 10 years ago.
Guys, I'm with you that making changes in entertainment solely for the purpose of catering to the woke crowd is crap. I had that feeling when they made Starbuck a female on the updated Battlestar series (though that worked for me, and I grew to really appreciate Katee Sackhoff as an actor). This isn't one of those situations. Brie Larson may be trying to cater to the woke crowd, the film is likely not...
