I've said it before, I'll say it again. A few of the Hrothgar mains around here need to reflect and stop fabricating boogeymen out of the Viera players (be they mains or alts) here. Everybody wants every single one of us to get every hair. There is no "All Viera players reacted this way" to anything because Viera players aren't a singular hivemind of drones. A lot of us have said before that we would be fine with SE taking a break for a patch or two in order to catch Viera up with Hrothgar, but approximately 5 Viera players in an English forum for a Japanese video game that nobody relevant pokes one eyeball in possess the capability to make that decision. Saying something doesn't make it happen which means saying it is the most you can expect from any of us and should be worth the same weight. Viera players did not ask to be 2 patches ahead of Hrothgar, that is just how the devs chose to go about things somewhere higher up in their scheduling when they appointed people in charge of porting new hairstyles.

Not everything needs to be about popularity or one race holding the other back. I think what is being constantly and fundamentally ignored is that porting hairstyles to Hrothgar and creating the female model is more work than the same jobs for Viera. Hrothgar are unique even by the XIV's standards of racial characters while Viera are just another version of the same - a Hyur-shape with animal characteristics. It is reasonable that they chose to tackle the easier job first so they could give players something tangible while they work to develop updates for Hrothgar.