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Saber Marionette J was a 90s harem anime where the "Marionettes" are not human, they are robots, but they're also property.
My bet is that the trope of main character collecting a harem morphed into just a literal slave harem via "acceptable" things like "they're not human so it's ok". Combine this with other things like Pokemon where the acceptability of the Pokemon working for the humans is ok because "they love it" and they're not humans is established despite the clear ability to communicate... Then add in Isekai tropes and the trend of the isekai worlds having videogame rules... I can see the transition over time into acceptability.
Really putting the blame on any one specific thing is quite hard. But trends over time can be seen as shows influence other shows and establish new boundaries of what is acceptable or normal to put into a story.