Why would that be idiotic? Did you not pay attention to the end of the video? She plainly states that violence against women is not, in and of itself, a bad thing. Obviously, EA took liberties with Dante's original work, so they COULD have taken liberties to give the wife a back story, a personality, show her fighting back, done all sorts of things to give her agency. Instead, they brutalized her.
They had a choice in what to change from the original Dante and they, by her estimation, chose wrong (as far as violence towards women is concerned). Seems like a perfectly fair example to me.