It's time (Option to Hide other players Glamour)

[Krotoan]

robbing someone of their individuality, forcing them to wear a helmet, or curating the world to your own selfish, petty desires is morally wrong and the height of bigotry and intolerance...

While you see it this way, generally this is not what the people asking for the feature perceive it as. Many discussions have been had but I need to ask you , what exactly is the problem? The fact that you know someone isn't seeing your character EXACTLY as you wish? The fact they'd have a choice to not see things they might find disagreeable? The idea your character might appear in something you didn't choose? There are solutions for lots of these problems that would make both sides happy.

1.) Too costly and would require too much time to develop a system to instantaneously hide a person's glamour, place a helmet on their head and adjust it for you client side; as all of this is sent to the server and they've already said they can't do anything extra to character appearance because the data is too bloated as is.

Considering the fact they won't separate horns from the faces of Au Ra among other things—it's just not going to happen because those things are minuscule compared to what is being asked for here.

Generally the way a game client gets data for your appearance is flags are sent from the server to the client. One identifier to tell your machine what it should show at whatever coordinates your player is based on your race, size and possibly a flag for what color. This option would actually REDUCE the the traffic because instead of querying the server for other players it would just take the data for class/race/gender/level and use predetermined results. Your client wouldn't care what people were actually wearing (or in some cases chose for appearance options) it would just use the settings defaults.

It's possible with the weird mystery that is FFXIVs legacy of development that this isn't the case but in SoP your argument doesn't particularly hold water. Adding a new option to character appearances is an entirely different matter. You're ADDING an entirely new data flag stream into the mix which is possibly different for thousands upon thousands of characters. You're also adding a variable that all the gear has to look OK in/on/over so that quality control needs to be involved.

2.) Mogstation exists, it is a cash shop, it sells non-restricted, freely glamourable items that appear and can be used in game.

I hate to break it to people (I actually don't), but the best form of advertising for a cash shop of any kind is for your players to purchase said items and to wear them. Giving you this option would remove one of Square Enix's main avenues of marketing and advertising Mogstation cosmetics to you and for that reason alone this will never happen.
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Yes mogstation exists for people to buy items they like the look of. Liking the look of something for MANY people is because they like how it looks on their characters and want to see it when they play the game. This would not affect this at all.
They may lose some visbility but everyone will not have the option enabled and in game "ohh hey lookit that" advertisement will still happen. Your perspective is again skewed in an "all or nothing" manner.

Not to mention the amount websites, opinion pieces and bad press the game would get for including a button that would quite literally be called a "bigotry" button in news articles related to it. It's not a good idea from a development or financial angle nor would it give them any positive publicity as a result.

Again you assume ALL news outlets view it as you do and as we see even within this thread the perspective on it is wide and varied. Some people still see it as just an option and the percent of people even in this thread viewing it as "bigoted" is small. Sure some more liberal perspectives might take your stance, but there are all kinds on the net, it will likely not be quite as widely one side polarized as you think.

People need to stop asking, lighten up and just enjoy the game as it is, not as it could be or as you perceive it should be. They have their vision for the game, everything fits into that and if it didn't, we wouldn't get it. It would do people well to learn to respect that.

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So stop asking for things we might want ? Sit down shut up and take what we're given?