Quote Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami View Post
The time put towards them could’ve been time put towards customization options for all races. Or put towards viera having new hairstyles or being able to wear headgear. I have nothing against Hrothgar but i don’t support overlooking facts for bias.
That is assuming they would have even done any of those things if they hadn't done Hrothgar though, that is not a fact.

As far back as 2013 Yoshida said that if they ever did Viera they'd probably do a different male only race as a counterpart and that's exactly what they ended up doing, for all we know Female Hrothgar and male Viera may have never been seriously considered beyond a concept art stage.

I get that people are disappointed but I really dislike this discourse around Hrothgar that if only they hadn't chosen to include them they could've/would've done <XYZ>. We don't know that at all, Stormblood added no new playable races and still did precisely nothing to further the customization of the other races.