>I think readers with kneejerk reactions to the tune of "theyve gone downhill / woke / bs" are maybe missing the point?

No it doesn't seem that way. Postmodern crowd has been calling evolutionary biologists/psychologists "problematic"/racist/whatever for decades. It's one of the main narratives of the original "culture wars" in the 80's/90's. The "problem" is postmodernists see humans as purely social constructions and any other narratives on human nature as power plays. This is not an integrative "yes and" perspective but the usual dismissal through "deconstruction" you see used by this crowd.