I am really annoyed when political correctness goes too far like this. Like you said, it isn't much work to have two forms.

This reminds me of a few years ago when in Germany everything started to be gendered. You couldnt just use a neutral male term, you would always have to say the male and female term for something, like if there is an email to university students it's always "Studentinnen und Studenten". Male terms used to be standart, and no one really used to think of them really as being male, so I don't get where that came from.