Would it be possible to keep sit emotes going when talking to an NPC?

This is just a small thing i noticed some times now. NOthing Gamebreaking or important, just something that would be nice to have.

Talking to an NPC resets you to your default position, you dismount, when you use an Umbrella in the rain you put it away and when you are sitting, you stand up.

Again, nothing of those things is in any way gameplay relevant or related to how well the game plays.

But as someone who likes a little role play, I always find it kinda sad that I cant sit next to my Quest NPC at the Bar and talk to him while "having a drink", or that I have to put my Umbrella away, after I avoided mounting for the way, because its raining and I "dont wanna get wet"...

would that be possible, or does the system FF14 runs on not allow for interactions while sitting or holding a cosmetic?

I guess the problem to consider is what happens to continuity in cutscenes. A lot of time you will be chatting to an NPC under your umbrella - then a cut scene plays so you can nod - the umbrella won't be there - and then you come back to talk and you are holding an umbrella again.

They can't have these things happening in cutscenes as - taking a mount for example - how does your character do 90% of the animations they make us do as you are sitting in your car, or on your whale, or sabotender?

So, rather than that continuity break from dialogue to cutscene I imagine they thought it easier to put the umbrella/mount away.

So many NPC interactions also involve other emotes. Someone asks a favor and you /yes, or says something surprising and you're taken /aback, etc. Rather than to picking and choose which NPC interactions can be held in which state, and being inconsistent about what makes you stand up, or dismount, or whatever, it's easier to just say "no mount, everyone stands" all the time and call it a day.