Quote Originally Posted by frostmagemari View Post
If you go back to ARR and up until about later Stormblood (i could be mistaken); tails and ears (even Elezen's) were accommodated at best and allowed to clip through at worse. At the very least during Shadowbringers began cost cutting (or time saving) by having hats turn off racial features.
Now they're doing it in Endwalker, and given the fact that the job gear at level 89 accommodates racial features and the moonmoon gear at 90 decides to clip said racial features off, i'd say that this is a choice they're making rather than it being necessity.

We should not be making excuses for Square-Enix (The multi-billion dollar company, if you forgot) as to why their cost and/or time cutting measures 'work'.
And, just because you seem to be really obsessing about this.. tucking what would essentially be an extension of one's spine into the pantleg of their armour would only not work, but i imagine excruciatingly painful.
It'd be ideal if they made armored tails, I was thinking of it based on what we have currently which is not armored tails and why it could still make sense to hide them.
Yes it'd be painful altho a lot of animals cats and dogs included can tuck their tails under their belly, but I imagine that you'd rather deal with some discomfort than lose it.
If people didn't and didn't wear armored tails they'd lose them first battle lol, tbh even armored tails I think would be kinda silly and just be in the way too.
I don't think it's the same really as a spine it's not that big and it's definitely more flexible.

I don't care about '' muh realism '' and all that I think it's idiotic to bring it up as a really serious argument in FFXIV I am just adressing the '' it doesn't make sense/ is not realistic to hide tails ''.
Under the *current* circumstances it'd make less sense and be less realistic to have them out.
Armored tails would look better imo and be more unique I don't disagree with that.