Other than a specific demographic and vocal SJWs I haven’t seen anyone who doesn’t consider the casting to be pandering nonsense.
Yeah, it's a pretty blatant attempt to get media buzz for being "courageous" with their choice.
I'd say one of the goals is for things like this to become so commonplace that we no longer interpret them this way. Since Disney started making movies back in, what, the 30s(?), they've had a grand total of one black princess. Yeah, it makes zero difference to us, white dudes on the internet, but to little black girls who watch this stuff it means the world. So who ****ing cares. If you ask me, the people who are too sensitive about **** are the ones who get all themselves all in a tizzy anytime something gets less white.
In other news, live-action Lion King looks absolutely awful.