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My impression is that switching it up would be a bit confusing to the reader. In the spirit of making predictions, I'll say that I'm 70% confident that switching it up would cause confusion in readers (not sure how I'd define confusion :/ ). It'd be interesting to see research on this. Maybe how switching it up affects reading comprehension or something.
For better or for worse, convention seems to be to use male pronouns, and I sense that deviation from this draws the readers attention towards pronoun use and away from the content. You may argue that this is an example of the legacy problem. Again, it'd be interesting to see if there was any similar research into this.
Data point: Assuming there are any gendered pronouns in the examples, I find it weirder when the same one is used consistently for the entire article.