The way of the world is, even with regulation, more often than not if someone's decided to discriminate they will do so in some way.
That said, this case, I think they were just blind to this. In a large software company often a feature is made for some group of imaginary users; "As a
<kind of person>
, I would really like<to have some kind of feature>
" and it ships in that way as well.
Coca-cola definitely advertises, famously Santa Claus, but did you also know they do more subversive things like trying to shift the blame for obesity onto the victims?
https://investors.coca-colacompany.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/392/exercise-is-the-best-medicine