I mean in most cases it would make it even less accurate yeah
No, most historical settings had some non zero number of black people.

If you’re passing them off as just regular people nbd in that setting then yeah that’d be inaccurate.

Then again, plopping in random white people into an Ancient Chinese setting would be pretty inaccurate too, even though there might’ve been “some non zero number” of whites over there at the time. Or in a random crowd shot of Nazi soldiers you plop in a few black soldiers. Certainly existed, but it does make it seem inaccurate (and silly imo).

I see somebody used Gemini image generation…
It’s all about diversity in my Nazi soldier representation. The Asian woman was top tier decision from Gemini