We need more options at the barber

[Kemiko]

Considering the aesthetician or even glamour weren't things original in FFXIV or even A Realm Reborn, the argument for fantasia income already has action against that very argument.
You had to use a fantasia to change anything about your character originally. Hairstyle, hair color, make-up, etc. all of that was fantasia only. This was eased up on with the introduction of the aesthetician (which IIRC, was introduced after glamour was added and both required you to be LV50 and have completed the 2.0 MSQ back then). Adding more options to the aesthetician (as they've been adding hairstyles and preset additional options for newer species like Au Ra) don't at all sound implausible to me.

[Iscah]

Adding more options to the aesthetician (as they've been adding hairstyles and preset additional options for newer species like Au Ra) don't at all sound implausible to me.

You're confusing a few different things here.

Adding options to the aesthetician is not quite the same thing as adding options to the character creator.

The aesthetician lets you edit selected categories of options from the character creator, generally limited to superficial options (eg. hair colour) but not actual face structure (eg. eye shape), though it seems there is some leeway with settings that control different types of thing on different character types. For example, some races' extra feature switches control beards or jewellery, others control scars or scale placement, so it errs on the side of modifiability and lets everyone change those equivalent options.

New hairstyles are essentially extensions to the character creator as a whole, although more and more we're getting ones that require unlocks rather than being dropped straight in as default, so they can only be accessed later.

Meanwhile, "preset additional options" are definitely a character creator thing, as they get designed as part of the new race's model. It's not an extension of anything in the same way that creating additional hairstyles adds further options for all standard races, but that every race gets five on/off features as part of their basic design. Nobody ever gets additional things added onto their options beyond the initial five.



An ideal addition to the aethetician would be the option to change basic face type, which would break the pre-established rule about not being able to edit things that alter the face shape, but would allow Hrothgar to change their hairstyle. I can't see it being a setting that people would make much use of for other reasons if they're not able to fine-tune individual aspects of the face design.