Story wise, I don't write to please other people. There are going to be things some people like while other people hate, and I'm honestly not too concerned about that. I usually start my comics/books under the assumption that no one will read them anyway or that some point down the line they'll stop reading and find something else to do with their time.
As for what that story may or may not teach, yes there are points and or social issues that I do bring up, but not because I'm trying to preach or appeal to a group of people, but because people are diverse in real life, so it would only be normal that your characters are that way as well. It's just normalizing things about people that SHOULD be seen as normal instead of seen as either a negative, a punch line to a joke, stereotyped or fetishsized (yeah, I'm sorry, getting the 'ohhh you're mixed race. How exotic and ****ing hot.' or 'ohhhh you're gay. OMG gayboi's are ****ing hot' is not a complement it's just really god damn disgusting). So if it's got any purpose at all aside from entertainment that would be it. How this is seen and taken is subjective to the readers of course.