In my opinion
1. Chun-Li was the only female character in the past
2. Chun-Li was created for female players to enter the game
Considering 1 and 2 above, it would be better for Chun-Li to reflect the preferences of half of humanity, which is "women".
And as many fan arts of Chun-Li show, Chun-Li is various, such as cute or cool.
In other words, Chun-Li was the projection of everyone's multi-image because she was the only female character from the beginning of fighting games.
The old dots were not concrete enough to allow that, and I myself changed my style from cute to cool and back.
Later, some younger and shorter characters appeared in Street Fighter.
Then, naturally, roles are created for the characters.
Chun-Li is the older sister, Cammy is the second daughter, Sakura is her younger sister, etc.
The parameters of cuteness are gradually distributed to characters other than Chun-Li.
I imagined that this dynamics encouraged the development of the gorilla direction and made Chun-Li a very respectable physique.
I'm in a carefree position and I'm going to continue to pursue the beauty that mixes cute and cool from the beginning for Chun-Li.