Why hasn't there been the ability to dye starting clothing?

[myahele]

One odd reason i could think of tht SE would do this cuz they wanted it to be iconic , the black, white, blue, brown, red look that says hey guysssss i just started playing! It also works for good crossover iconic gear in other games like lightning returns mi'qote starter gear.
Ppl who played ffxivarr will instantly be like hey i know dat look! Is what i assume SE is trying to achieve. Also they seem to like to preserve weird systems.

maintaining "iconic" image was their reasoning behind not making af gear dyable back then. Now we can dye af, FF13 (no body asked for it) and also the darklight gear