The Unofficial "Why is this still a thing" Thread

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...even if you'll burn me for bringing this up: Genderlocks on gear.

Specially in the light of recent events (the release of the male bunny outfit, that took about 2 years) I've asked myself this question again - infact I've asked myself different versions of this question:

If removing a genderlock from gear later takes them 2 years but they eventually wanna do it as Yoshi stated once, why do they keep adding to genderlocked gear?

And while I personally dont agree with the argument that "Male characters shouldnt be allowed to wear dresses because its not something men do" (or some version of this), I can at least see a tiny bit of a reason there not to unlock something like the Thavnair Autumn dress (and obviously keep the Shirt males only aswell then). Just a tiny bit though, that I dont agree with.
However, this "reason" falls flat on its face when it comes to stuff like the Expeditioners Shoes for example. Genderlocked Shoes? Why?

As for the reason of giving the artist more freedom creating gear-sets for just one gender: They can still do that. They can initially design a set for females, a set for males and still model them for both genders.

Solution: Stop releasing genderlocked gear - start working on unlocking stuff instead. If they want to do that anways better not build up more workload and instead try to remove the locks that already are in place - specially the extremly arbitrary ones like on shoes, gloves, headgear.