Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Lauront]

In lalafell lore, it's specifically stated that they have the same strength as a midlander, I believe. It's biological. In the real world, we have little people and they are about just as strong as the rest of us. Some of them are stronger, some are weaker. It's how it is.

Which source states that, if you don't mind clarifying?

Both subraces are described as lacking in strength:

Dunesfolk

Dunesfolk miners also rival the Roegadyn in their numbers and accomplishments, making up for their lack of brute strength with resourcefulness and the ability to delve into the narrowest tunnels. [1]

Plainsfolk

What they lack in physical strength, however, they more than make up for in swiftness of reflexes and sharpness of mind.

Of course, I'd accept that as an explanation if it is the case, because we can't dissect a Lalafell, so I can buy differences between races where they're explicitly mentioned, but where these arguments run into murky territory is when you're making comparisons within a race, where it's unlikely that the differences in size between genders don't result in natural physical strength differentials.

We know nothing of viera's evolutionary history - particularly how it affected the males because we don't know what they look like. It's really up to the dev team to decide how they're going to write and design the males.

Yes, I'm willing to grant the point that we don't know enough about it. What I am arguing is that we shouldn't rush to specific outliers as being indicative of anything more than the fact that there are means within the world to augment oneself, and to further underscore that just because such means may be more relatively common now, it does not follow that they are universally so, or that they were during the evolutionary trajectories of these races.

Regarding squadron members, they're just RNG creations with a face stuck to them, but again if you want to take them as canon, they're basically individuals with enough means to train up in their classes/jobs and procure equipment, so probably adventurers, i.e. outliers. There is nothing, lorewise, to suggest that Lalafell recruit for DoW classes, much less jobs, in any great numbers, whatever the squadron lottery machine throws at you...