As a casual baseball fan I like the pitch clock, keeps things moving along aha.
I actually think coed would be more interesting. You could have a female pitcher for the women and a male pitcher for the men.
It would add another depth of strategy about which positions are played by which players.
It is just a matter of incentives.
Remember Google is paid by advertising dollars. So the incentives are to feed you the maximum amount of ads with the minimum amount of content so that you don’t leave for something else.