To be honest I don't really agree with this narrative spin that it's somehow the players own fault these are bad because "we asked for this". Players ask for many things every day and we've seen them reject or sometimes just not respond to plenty of them so it's not like they're completely at the mercy of the wants of the playerbase if they have something different in mind, people asked for these mythical race-exclusive hairstyles for a long time as well.

If they really had concrete plans for either of the races in terms of hairstyles they would've gone through with them or even talked about it again beyond that original possibly mistranslated/misunderstood statement. To me personally, the fact that it took until 6.0 for Viera to get something and 6.1 for Hrothgar makes me think they didn't have any solid plans for their hairstyles at all, shared or new.

This isn't on the players who maybe did or didn't ask for something.