The problem, as I see it, is that everyone except Highlanders received a new emote. Highlanders did not, or you could say their existing /pose was made obsolete (depending on how you choose to look at it). In all honesty do they really need both their normal /pose *and* the Most Gentlemanly pose?

I think if a patch came out that gave a new emote to everyone except race-X, everyone in race-X would pretty much be thinking "what the heck?". That's how Highlanders are feeling right now, and it's completely understandable.

It would be nice if they had received, say, the Midlander /pose (whatever that looks like).