The fact that foreign traders are present in a game that, produced a decade or so ago, would very much not have had them means that the tension is less between

The fact that foreign traders are present in a game that, produced a decade or so ago, would very much not have had them means that the tension is less between "inclusivity" and "historical accuracy", and more between "contemporary, preconceived notions" and "historical accuracy". It turns out that "inclusivity" is more historically-accurate when compared to what we would have gotten in the past. In the end, it really is about healthy skepticism, especially of long-held beliefs and "knowledge".