Takeo Suzuki clearly meant to say that if people's butts grew any bigger, there would not be any space left in the world for Roegadyn women, Highlander women, and Miqo'te male! And clearly that is a lot of space, especially when it comes to Roegadyn! We would be squeezed in a world of buttcheeks and nobody would be able to move anymore!

Though, something that always bugged me about this picture (aside the camera being obviously pointed on someone's butt, that is...)



The two pictures kinda clearly do not display the model in the same pose. The way the legs are bent in the first picture and the absence of the hand near the hip suggests me that the model in that picture was performing some kind of emote, an emote that sort of pushed out her bottoms, so I wouldn't take that reference for a comparison of 1.0 and 2.0 body shapes.

Personally I'd like to see Male Miqo'te's idle-hand-arthritis effect removed before any modification is done to the backside (and I'm saying this as a player with 16 characters of all races and genders, so don't point at me as selfish. I am not just a Male Miqo'te).