Quote Originally Posted by ASkellington View Post
If I were to guess... and this is me giving the benefit of the doubt...

POSSIBLY they don't want to make gendered gear only for the community to ask for the gear to be unlocked because coding headache. Take the Neo-Ishgardian one for instance. I know people with female characters who want the male look and I personally want the female one myself. I don't see either becoming a lv1 glam option. Ever.

Doesn't explain why they just don't make more gender neutral stuff but I can see the above issue being a reason for why all the sets are more... uniform across sexes. Otherwise they'd have to do what they did with the Valentoine's 2023 set and make two. For ARMOR. I really don't see that going over well either.
Honestly, if that was their excuse, it's not a particularly good one.

They could plausibly just make both the M and F styles, then make each a set of gear that can be equipped by either gender. Then they can add the option to exchange one style with the other from the calamity salvager. After all, we can already exchange M to F (and vice versa) for the cash shop outfits.

It would also open up more creativity by matching, for example, the M style top with F style gloves.