You can't right click an item in your retainer and hit sort?
The race/gender items are kind of weird, since there's more gear that isn't locked than there is that is locked like that.
The emote/hairstyle thing, a lot of them can be traded, and the ones that aren't tradable you can't obtain after using once.
The MP bar thing is probably just a blanket thing. Does it really bother you seeing an MP gauge on classes that don't use it? Plus when things use to be level based cross class, like giving classes cure/physick they USED to be able to use MP. It's probably way easier to just blanket the MP on all classes, it really doesn't hurt anything
The only peoples' gauges I'm ever really worried about is the MP of healers, and drk/pld, being able to see their resources. I'm sure many people wouldn't want to see up to 8 gauges constantly bouncing around. Plus some classes aren't just flat out gauges, so I'm not sure that would work.
Wouldn't mind more customization for the target's HP bar personally.
You can hide the emotes from your chat by hitting the gear next to the chat if they bother you. There's always gonna be people spamming them because they like to spam them. Been in dungeons where others were doing that.
I really don't know why people want speech bubbles for players in game. I've played a few MMOs in the past where that was the ONLY way to see what people were saying, and it was a huge eyesore. IF they were off by default, then sure, people can go nuts with them, but then you'd be seeing people with HUGE chat bubbles spamming FC recruitment ads/ect
Wouldn't mind a couple more skills changing into what's needed when it's able to be used, kind of like some gunbreaker's skills. But I wouldn't want all the skills to be condensed like a lot of forum players are wanting (Like making them mindless like in PvP)