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If we go by xivcensus's data on the two races' most similar representations today, male viera would be played by more than female and male hrothgar combined.

If they wanted to add more racial diversity then this isn't just about volume of players using the thing, but an artistic decision.
And "reinforcing old gender aesthetic stereotypes and restricting player expression is uncreative, boring, and regressive" is a valid criticism to apply to this artistic decision.

You're strawmanning here. It's clear the presupposition that the post you're quoting was based on was that SE knew they were adding Viera and Hrothgar based on the overwhelming demand for a bestial race and Viera.

From that point your graph and that logic literally supports the addition of female Viera and male Hrothgar since (of each race) those are the more popular genders.

As far as "regressive" ideas about gender aesthetic stereotypes we could go in circles all day and never agree but (again) your graph shows that more people play female Miqo and male Roe sooooo... if the statistics show that the playerbase seems to follow a certain set of ideas about gendered stereotypes it seems like a poor business decision for SE to break from that in a situation like this one where they don't have unlimited financial resources to create everything they might want to.

I didn't say they were stupid or that they made this decision lightly, I'm just saying I feel its the wrong choice.
A full hrotgar race would have sold a bit of fantasias.
A full viera race would have sold tons upon tons of fantasias
What we got now will sell decent amount for viera but not much for hrotgar
Also press is one of the most important things for a game, and genderlock gives u extremely bad press which means lots of money lost (look at games news reporters and u'll see what I mean)
Male viera will probs make at least 10x times more money than hrotgar
If they made hrotgar males look like ronso they would have also sold a lot more so im not sure why they went the reskinned roegadyn way but not my decision

This is all conjecture and your opinion. I'm certain SE knows what will sell better than a random player, if there's anything they truly care about in this game it's making money.