There are very few instances that have made me disappointed enough to actually come to the forums to comment, as with most mmorpgs these kinds of tone-deaf designs are expected and cater to the majority of the playerbase and what will grant them money and the majority of the playerbase is, in this instance, rather obvious, given the amounts of "gEt OvEr It" arguments I am seeing in response to reasonable concerns about the outfits.
What is disappointing is being strung along on the false hope of the first half of an expansion where, for a moment, I was led to believe that for the first time I would see my homeland represented not just 'accurately' but with care. The care it deserves. No longer faceless, noble savages, but people with beautiful graphical designs and cool lore and a colorful world. Not just that, but this was a colorful world without the horrors of colonization, a world where, for once, fantasy and magic was allowed to not center around the European storytelling, as it so often is. And then, you know, this happens.

Now, I feel it important to note something that the ""arguments"" here by other latinos here in this thread are missing, and it is that I am, myself, an indigenous person. It does not matter if you are from X, Y, Z, and you are okay with these outfits, when you have no connection to your indigenous ancestry. Latam is not a monolith. There is a common idea in Latam that we are all of this ancestry and thus all have the same claim to these types of discussions; but this is precisely the kind of ideology that colonization brought, and intentionally, so that we could forget our roots. How many of you claiming these are harmless can trace your roots? How many of you downplaying the upset actually care about your indigenous ancestry? Have you cared about it aside from using it to weaponize it against arguments online? Would your people claim you?

I can't say I expected better out of Squenix, but I can say that perhaps I expected better out of my countrymen. I hope at the very least our concerns are addressed. I don't know what has happened to these "sensitivity readers" but I believe we need more of them.