Quote Originally Posted by Airget View Post
SHort answer is no, you have it in your own quote
" but this decision was made so we could relaunch with new races and a lot of new equipment."

That means if they wanted to add a butt slider they would also need to redo all the equipment to keep that in mind. It's not as easy as saying just make butts, it's a Jenga effect, you want to add that, you have to go back and accommodate all armor to fit with the slider.
Alternatively, they could have armour scale the butt automatically on a case by case basis similar to the bust slider. It might annoy some, but not more anymore than it does already where you character suddenly gets implants for some chest pieces. The game was released in 2013, I still can't believe they don't have proper scaling (why even give options really?) on armour sets when every other F2P Korean title manages it with armour that's far more detailed and much more prone to stretching issues with textures if done incorrectly, although they almost never are. Maybe FFXIV's engine is really that bad, considering Kingdom Hearts 3 and Final Fantasy 7 were moved to Unreal Engine 4.