Please don't harass people for ignoring/disliking the story

[IkaraGreydancer]

While I don't actually care about the burgers I do dislike the hawaiian shirts and branded clothing that have made their way into the game, I think it clashes horribly with the aesthetic and aren't very well justified by the lore.
You can claim FF has always been like this but I disagree completely, every FF game has done a good job of making sure all of their components match each other aesthetically.
Not all the Final Fantasies are tabbards and tunics but if one person is wearing Louis Vuitton then you can expect everyone else to be wearing something to match outside of mythical or magical beings where the contrast is the whole point, while the games that have regular people in frills and plate armor generally won't have some random person wearing a tailored black suit and sunglasses.

Considering the game is basically a melting pot of eras I really don't see the issue. People pick n choose what fits n what doesn't and it makes little sense to me. You see things like the Weapons (the bosses) and none of that tech is old tech. That's VERY advanced tech(past our modern age) yet nobody complains about that not fitting xivs general old style.

Simple fix imo is to not wear or use said items if you feel they don't fit

[Ameela]

Considering the game is basically a melting pot of eras I really don't see the issue. People pick n choose what fits n what doesn't and it makes little sense to me. You see things like the Weapons (the bosses) and none of that tech is old tech. That's VERY advanced tech(past our modern age) yet nobody complains about that not fitting xivs general old style.

Simple fix imo is to not wear or use said items if you feel they don't fit

The Weapons are actually a perfect example of how Final Fantasy usually handles its sci-fi elements.
The reason the Weapons exist in the first place is because they're based on already existing monsters - the Ultima Weapon, which is a basis for the others, is literally just a giant lizard with armor grafted onto it. The reason Magitek as a concept is cool is because it's this really advanced technology that's only made possible in a high fantasy-type world, so despite how advanced it is all the technology is limited by what the people of that world perceive as efficient and dangerous. Of course Magitek Armor would be a bipedal, fire-breathing hunk of metal with huge claws, that's the form of the most dangerous thing the people of a world like this could think of.
The Ironworks armor is also a good example of this - it's obviously technologically advanced, but in terms of its form it's still modeled after the types of bronze or iron plating that you'd expect a low level XIV character to wear, it's just being powered up by Magitek.
And if we want to bring it back to the real world - there was nothing stopping some random weaver in the 14th century from coming up with a T-shirt, theoretically they had all the materials and knowledge to do it, but the conventions of that era simply meant they wouldn't ever think to try.

[Absimiliard]

The reason the Weapons exist in the first place is because they're based on already existing monsters - the Ultima Weapon, which is a basis for the others, is literally just a giant lizard with armor grafted onto it.

Ultima Weapon is a biotechnological weapon, but its internals do consist primarily of machinery. It was not, based on the information we currently have available, a lizard with armor grafted onto it. Were I to hazard a guess as to the reason for its shape, I'd tend to think the Allagans based it on the dragon-centaur things responsible for summoning Zurvan.