Quote Originally Posted by ZephyrMenodora View Post
I see what your saying in the inconsistency, but I prefer job-specific gear that was released in that manner to stay that way. I always personally liked having some gear options that were a badge of honor for being dedicated to certain classes.

This may mean nothing to you, but it does to many. It's most likely why the devs made this reason to begin with.
And that isn't reasonable. The only glamour that should matter is your own. Anyone else's is their business that they are paying for. If aesthetic roleplay were a pillar of game design to the design team, then they shouldn't have introduced free-for-all gear like Cloud's and Zidane's and so on. They shouldn't have introduced "Joke" gear like swimsuits and chocobo mascot outfits. But they did, so clearly aesthetic roleplay is not a pillar of FFXIV's game design. Having some gear that is and some that isn't is just silly and an ancient concept to modern MMOs.