Context, dudes. No exec is gonna go, "Garbage Pail Kids sucks so let us pull the plug on all white guy directed movies".
That article should be ridiculous but because the Hollywood system has traditionally been so ridiculous, it's just calling out the double standards.
How many examples have we seen of the same people who were impatient to bash every single thing about this movie that became public go, "It's sooo unfair that people aren't giving Ready Player One a chance! "
Supporters, especially POC and women professionals, feel the need to "protect" Ava because they live in the real world and know how these fucked up things work and how people in high positions of power are not going to take DuVernay's shortcomings as her shortcomings as an individual filmmaker, but shortcomings of minority filmmakers, especially WOC filmmakers, in general.