Seriously SE???

[Moqi]

Lore and animation most certainly do have importance in differentiating races.

Visually, they don't. That's what I'm talking about but you keep bringing up lore like it's got anything to do with it. Mi'qote too are humans cat ears, yes. It's lazy and cheap, we had them and Padjal already, for 40$ they'd better put more effort in it. You can justify it lore-wise anyway you want, but female Au ra still look like a bunch of 17 year girls at a Mean Girls halloween party.

a lot more may be going into this than you realize.

Big whoop, it's their job. It's not like I'm paying SE every month for them to do exactly that...