iam a straight guy, born and raise with anime so sadly i actually dont mind with all that "waifu", in every game with "create your own character' i always play as female because i will try to dress them in either sexy or cool "ice queen" way (unless in a game where you can create gundam because that will be my priority one!)

all i can say is "cant satisfy everyone", i mean like it or not FF14 maybe cater toward casual player but inside these casual is still majority of man so sexism is still one of the aspect they need to do to keep the audience happy, remember this is made in japan not west (you know how japan and echi goes hand in hand in video games)

but you must give them props to actually also give some "service" toward girl too, not many mmorpg do this (and probably none?) so yeah while it still edge toward "man of culture", they still think for girls too.