To be entirely fair, there have been people wanting to hide tails from gear mostly because of clipping with tailcoats or capes, etc. In a perfect world, tails and maybe ears would be a toggle, but I think they're just trying to please different groups of people without going out of their way.

That said, it's weird the reaper form doesn't even have "horns" to pretend the ears are there.

Personally, I don't even like the reaper form at all, but hoping for any sort of alternate design would be like waiting for egi glamours at this point.