Since Overwatch 2 released, many people have noticed many lore inconsistencies and the poster-problem-child for the dropping of the ball is one Kiriko Kamori. People have accused Blizzard of prioritizing her marketability over lore coherency because she could not possibly be as young as she is and have the kind of (non-romantic) relationship she does with the Shimada brothers but they needed some young cool rebellious "mascot" for the new-ish game (never mind that in neither Watsonian nor Doylist time has Tracer aged out of that kind of poster-girl role and I thought Sojourn was being more pushed as the new-hero face of OW2 because she was the first of the newbies we saw). And why I feel like Kiriko's age needs to be changed/the inconsistency resolved is not just to "save the lore" but to restore fans' faith in it and therefore the game as the hatred's gotten ridiculous.

As for what Blizzard could add to the lore to fix their shit, they could do everything from make her older to fix her timeline but just keep her youthful vibe in a similar way to how certain TV characters like Lance Sweets from Bones and especially Penelope Garcia from Criminal Minds (yes I'm a crime drama geek) feel much younger than they are (which even is present elsewhere on the Overwatch roster with how many people thought D.va was a teen), to slightly adjust the ages of her, Hanzo and Genji to make them still fit while making her less not-young, to even pulling a Mei-esque "timeskip" thing but in a different way (hence why I implied earlier the inconsistency could be resolved without changing her age). This last solution is the one I like the best because it feels like you could hang the most story off of it as what I mean by different way to "timeskip" is just like how Mei's got some age/timeline weirdness because of her time in cryo Kiriko could have had something similar with, like, being lost in the spirit world or something (that could also emphasize that yes she does have freaking magic) to make her timeline match the Shimadas.

But whatever it is, I think Blizzard should do something to make Kiriko's age line up with her lore (as they have fixed other lore inconsistencies and this wouldn't be even the first time they changed a character's age since the ages were released as they had to change Sojourn's so as to (based on stuff in her novel and its timeline relative to her age) not implicitly make her-sister-or-whoever a teen mom), the fans would thank them.