Her being a Bugster did not, in any way, indicate that she could, or would, be a Rider. Koyomi wasn’t human either, and yet, outside of one movie where she jacked her dad’s powers, she didn’t become a Rider - and nor did Graphite - another Bugster in that same show. Other human heroines are are clearly ‘special’ from day one, like Misora, for instance, don’t become Riders either. Being more than human =/= going to be a Rider.
No one here thought that Poppy would become a Rider, and yet she did. Like I said, I don’t think that Mei will become one, either. But saying that she’s got no chance is ridiculous, because stranger things have happened.

It's typically kinda rare for the female lead to get a rider belt, unfortunately -- though some of the only few exceptions are the leads of the last two seasons, Tsukuyomi and Izu; meaning it's more likely for Mei now than ever. But it probably just means that she'll get something small extremely last minute.

Yeah, Toei's afraid of making merch that acknowledges that girls also watch Kamen Rider most of the time, and the only other options I know of are to give her her own version of an existing rider form (IXA) or have her be a rider from the beginning (Valkyrie), and she hasn't been a rider from the beginning.

I was hoping Reiwa would be different this time in the female rider thing.

I hope Reika is a Megid and not a rider.

Precure has mostly handled the female toku audience for a while now, and even then, I don't think they've been doing well sales-wise? At least that's what I think. I've seen more precure stuff on clearance than rider stuff when I went on a trip to Japan.

Although, it if it means anything positive, it kinda seems like Toku is slowly but surely trying, at least, to push heroines/villainesses into the spotlight. Ultraman Z had a major character in Yoko being the sole mecha pilot, not sure about Kiramager but Yodonna is a major villain general(?) and I saw that one screenshot of three Kiramai greens for one episode. Zero-One starting with Valkyrie as the tertiary rider, Naki (technically? Kinda? Maybe?), one of the Abaddons, and one of the new villains for Zero-One's MBJR.net V-cinema.

Saber also teased a female swordsman during the trailers, and also have Sophia and Reika in very important roles.

If there's a future for heroines in tokusatsu, it'd likely be the P-Bandai market. Retail toys are mostly geared to kids, and if Bandai feels like they can't capture the girl demographic for it, then they'll relegate the heroine merch in the P-Bandai market where older audiences can obtain them and Bandai gets to take all the profits.

Yeah, I think think the "Female Rider" situation is heading in the right direction. It's gonna be slow progress, but it's still progress.

Though, I don't want to "actually" anybody, but Naki doesn't actually count, due to being a different kind of representation. They're non-binary, making them the first non-binary Rider.

Which is hilarious because as a robot, they probably do run on binary XD

Considering your avatar, I'm surprised you don't know about this, but Nakayama Satsuki themself said that Naki's gender is determined by the viewer. So if TheRaizin wants to count her as a Female Rider then that's his opinion.

Zero-Two is based on quantum physics which use qubits (0s, 1s and 2ns which is basically both 0s and 1s simultaneously), so I guess you could say that Naki's not the only non-binary Rider in Zero-One. :lol

It's Rei now, actually. I picked a dumb username which I thought was cool when I made this account lmao.

I only counted Naki on the pure basis of appearance. Them and the rider suit, while certainly has qualities of androgynity (that even a word?), do lean on a more feminine vibe for me.

Going on-topic of Saber, leaks suggest that Saber's super form is called "Dragon Star" and appears to be a bookmark/lever that plugs into a WRB (dunno if an existing one or exclusive to Dragon Star) and then a new sword for Saber. With Blades having a "Northern Lion" upgrade that is going to be obtained from the previous Blades.