Here's an idea, instead of having alts just to play a different race, they could make changes to the aesthetician to actually make him useful (and worth the 2k gil) and allow him to "make a completely new you" (doesn't he say something like that anyway?) by letting you essentially use a fantasia potion essentially. I think personally that this would make a lot of players happy plus instead of having to redo the main story line again you can switch your race to hyur when you wanted to play pld and then switch back to your miqo'te for mnk (though i guess that does take away the fun of leveling all over again but at least it wouldn't make anything broken and actually makes the aesthetician useful instead of the uselessness he is now)