Please lift glamour restrictions!

[Miste]

If you want jobs, classes etc to have a visual identity and whatnot, you have to advocate not just for it to be kept with future additions, but you also have to advocate that everything that currently violates that identity be removed. Every swimsuit, every cloth armor, every haircut, every costume and that includes the veteran rewards - they all need to be removed as options for those jobs where they do not fit into the identity.
That is the consequence of the identity argument.
People keep avoiding that and uphold a double standard that it's okay for some violations like Bikini/leather/robe tanks to exist but others like full metal mages not. They keep using that argument and then turn around on it. That is what I'm criticizing. I don't care which side a person is on. If someone is dead set on insisting every mage has to wear a burqa - that's their opinion. If they have that opinion however, they should be consequent about it and not go around and say:"Doesn't go for hot miqo'te chicks."

I hope you are trolling....because this is a ridiculous "it has to be all or nothing" argument. Stuff doesn't work that way, nor would sensible people want it to work that way and it is selfish. Compromise seems to be a word people lack the definition of...since that's what SE has to do a lot with glamours. Compromise to please a lot of different kinds of people all at once.

Have specific to FF series iconic lore gear to please long time fans.
Have new unique stuff to appeal to people who like to have new things unique to FFXIV instead of only recycled stuff from previous games.
Have many different kinds of gear for each job to wear and keep building on it to satisfy people who want a lot of variety of styles.
Have some fluff/silly/pretty glamour to appeal to people with less serious mindsets and people who like more stylish/modern clothes.

There are already a lot of options to be creative already not everything has to be given to every job. It's not that the jobs have to always look like the lore identifies them it is more that IF someone is wearing or glamouring their job specific gear then they can easily be recognized as that iconic job.

Job specific gear is already only very few sets of gear out of the whole picture (only like 5-10% of the gear in the game is locked to one job), but some people are so uncompromising they want it ALL because they want to ignore that other people play this game too and care about the fact we should keep some lore intact. I dislike bikini tanks and that pig costume and many other sets of gear in the game, but I am not selfish enough to ask them be removed just because I don't like them, since there are plenty of other options I like that I can use for my characters.

Yeah we can't always follow lore because the game would be too restrictive and not appeal to enough different kinds of people, but when the lore gear is already the minority and you want to take it away...nah...it is a valid reason to not do it.