A lot of my frustrations with the portrait system would be solved if, when a portrait "breaks", the game would just fall back to the picture used for my adventurer plate instead of the default mugshot.
The picture I use for my adventurer plate passed all the checks so it should be a valid fallback.


The one thing that really irks me though is that I can't just have the "wrong" weapon on a shared plate any more.
For example sharing a tank glamour plate when one of the tank Jobs is still leveling.
In the past I could just glamour the other tanks' weapons once, then leave the leveling tank's weapon on the plate.
Now, every time I then switch to one of the other tanks the glamour is going to be fine because it just ignores the wrong weapon on the plate but the portrait will throw a fit about the gear not matching. Or at least it did when I was testing things out after the Beta of the system.
Having to go and add a weapon, save the plate, apply the plate, remove the weapon and finally save the plate again every time the only tank I'm still leveling at the time upgrades their weapon is annoying.
And they don't give us enough plates for every Job so I could just not share plates to circumvent the issue.