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witch--->early modern witch panics--->the religious wars in the old swiss confederacy; actually a fairly lush setting between the religious shitheads and imperial powers that transited the area and made use of swiss soldiers
the OP probably meant it as a no-friction generic fantasy setting tho lol
Yeah you can problem invent problems via exploring how a visibly obvious witch might be treated by the townsfolk of the middle of nowhere on the alps. But you're essentially inventing that problem.
The best realistic conflict you could go for could be how women are treated. Honestly a Disco Elysium style exploration of misogyny and sexism could be interesting and I'm quite sure several characters from Disco Elysium would have treated the player completely differently as a woman.
But this person seeking "diversity" isn't asking for that. Somehow they want idyllic cozyness at the same time as having fantastic writing. These two things don't exist. Cozy comfyness can be lovely and healing but the story of your nice day out with your cat isn't going to be incredible writing. That can be nice in its own right, I like several Slice of Life animes where literally NOTHING happens, but what's good about them doesn't come from the story but from the feeling and emotion they give you.
I don't think you even need to invent problems, swiss mercenaries were only a thing because of how poor the swiss used to be, so that 'idyllic village' would be incredibly poor maybe at some point some people come back from a campaign by some french prince and some that left the village are now dead and some have gotten a little bit of money, like humanism in switzerland was explicitly against the mercenary system just because of how gruesome it was every 5th person would become a mercenary and a third wouldn't come back. Humanists saw the buying and selling of flesh as immoral, and that it doesn't enrich the mercenaries but rather professional outfits and foreign nobles. This all also happens around the time of the reformation so there's quite a bit to explore.
You got local myths like Sennentuntschi where I'm sure there's a lot of feminist writing that could be done, Mundaun did rewrite the 'Teufelsbrücke'.
Of course that requires people to actually read about regions and their history instead of just using shit as wallpaper which too often switzerland is because they saw a ghibli movie at one point.
That's to say that you can have incredibly interesting stories pretty much everywhere where people are it's just that writers are lazy.