Please lift glamour restrictions!

[Niwashi]

what Im saying is that what other way is possible for people like the op to get their choice in glamour aside from getting rid of the whole system as it currently is.

One possible way (that I've frequently heard suggested, and have advocated myself) is that they unlock the vast majority of glamour restrictions, so anything that's NOT AF can be glamoured regardless of your current job. Only keep the restriction in place for job specific gear. (That wouldn't even need to be set on individual pieces, but could be rule-based: If the set of classes/jobs able to wear the gear is a set of only 1 class or job, then using it as glamour is restricted to only that class/job. If the set of classes/jobs that can wear it is a list of multiple ones, then any class/job can glamour it, whether it's in that list or not.)

That way, all jobs would have the same number of options. Mages would have a wider variety of armour to choose from. And so on. Yet each of the jobs would still be able to retain their own iconic looks, provided by those AF sets that would then be the only remaining restriction.