Viera are not worth the shortcuts they're taking to make them.

[Floortank]

This is a strange conclusion. Someone who can design graphics for a head model is not necessarily someone who can design a job and balance it.

The difficulty of a new race has most to do with the time needed to make all the gear for it.

That's certainly true, and yet we're not talking about committing the same people to a different project. We're talking about committing time and budget to one or the other. Only one person was responsible for the game mechanics of BLU in FFXIV and they worked that in between patches.