Despite your opinion they dropped the ball with Au Ra...there seems to be a lot of people happy with Au Ra since I see them everywhere in-game. Even this long after they added it and playing the content a lot I see Au Ra almost as often as Miqote. So I am not sure how many share your opinion that they screwed up by adding Au Ra...just my observation it seems like your opinion is minority.
Anyway mostly I just feel people are using SE's flawed logic as a point for their argument that it will never happen like saying "they'll never add it cause they said they don't want a race that is similar to Miqote" even though after this they went and added Au Ra. So SE obviously doesn't really follow their own reasoning.
If they aren't even following their own reasoning they might still add Viera anyway even if some people won't like it. I mean I personally don't like the Roe race, but I wouldn't ask for it to be removed just because I don't like it. That would be silly...so I don't agree with you that they dropped the ball with Au Ra at all. I see tons of people playing Au Ra characters; that seems like a success to me.
