Is this just me being cynical or does that part about hats on the limited races read like it falls somewhere between "we gave up retrofitting old hats, we'll recycle them and make similarish models available that way, though" and "we gave up on old hats, but we'll add new hats which will work on all races (by giving everyone the hyur model if we're feeling lazy)"?
To "increase variations" could mean anything from "new hats" to "adding variations to old models" I suppose and is exactly the vague wishy-washy response I've come to dislike.

Pretty much the only pieces of actual information I can glean from the article are relics are not going to be exactly the same implementation and the Island Sanctuary will "get updates based on player feedback", which again could mean anything from tweaking exp thresholds to actual new features.

There's no info in there to spread so I can see why they haven't made a lodestone announcement about it or anything, it's just the same information that is already on the DT page rehashed as an interview with some vague marketing speech thrown in there that tells us nothing substantial.