Devs, Stick to your guns or remove Viera all together.

[Aurida]

I'm fine with Male Viera, although I do hope they retcon the lore a tad to make them a better fit, but this is a pretty poor argument.

They're a perfect fit already, same as a member of any other race might leave to go adventure in the wider world. I don't think the "lore" ever stated de facto 100% that literally every single male viera in existence was bound for life to their duty or whatever so it's perfectly reasonable to have them as adventurers and therefore player characters. No problem here.