Something that occured to me the other day, is that if you are talking about numbers, PP and also certain other feminists who have spoken out about this have, in fact, improved quite a lot of people's views on feminist. There were a lot of people, men but especually some women, who have felt, not only disengaged from feminsim, but as if it has been a hostole thing which they were really alianated from, which rejected them as women.
Lots of those women have been giving it a second look and thinking that there might be something there for them, it might be a conversation they would like to be involved in, maybe they could bring their thoughts and they would be heard, after all.
I have wondered if a lot of the worry that cerain people have is not that feminism will get a bad reputation, but that it will be more respectful of all women and have a broader intellectual discourse, rather than reflexivly labling many women as retrograde handmaidens. Because that has been an excellent way for certain people to control feminist discourse and whatever political power they can squeeze out of claiming to represent women's interests.
In as much as feminsim, like other movements, has been captured by partisan identity politics, it could be the first to really reject that influence and expression of power, largely because of the clear wake up call of gender ideology. That's truely dangerous, especially if it gets people talking about the underlying methods that mode of politics uses to maintain control. That's why people freak out, or sometimes genuinly feel afraid if they have been captured by that viewpoint, when they see "feminists" considering thinkers or even associating with people from the wrong political tribes. It's a clear sign that they are throwing off those mental shackles.
Scary stuff for some. But I would maintain that it has significantly widened awareness and appreciation for feminist thought among women. It's just a matter of whether you think they are the right kind of women.