Mission impossible 7 spoilers!
This isn’t even about Ilsa specifically, it is more about how her death was handled
Her death didn’t left a gap in the team. Grace was there immediately, ready to take over. No one mourned Ilsa
If Benji would have died, he wouldn’t have been replaced immediately. They would have mourn him, there would have been a gap. Yes eventually he would have been replaced but not immediately. Look at Top Gun 2 (SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER for top gun Maverick) where Ice Man dies. It blows a hole into Mavericks heart, you can see and feel that. Ice man gets a huge funeral. Everyone is there and you feel that there is no one who can replace him ever. And the movie doesn’t replace him.
That Ilsa - after saving the team for two and a half movies - doesn’t even gets a goodbye is so badly handled.
I don’t want to reduce it the whole time to male vs female on screen representation. But it’s part of the problem imo