Well some insight on why some people might want to keep them as race specific.

In total including Head, Body, Hands, Legs, and Feet there are 6593 pieces of left side gear. Source: xivdb

Each race has 6 pieces that are race specific: Hempen Top, Hempen Legs, and the starter race gear consisting of Body, Hands, Legs, and Feet.

6 items out of 6593 are race specific for one race.

So the math for that is 6 divided by 6593 times 100.

Each race has 0.09% of gear that they have only for their race and that is only counting left side only and ignoring accessories.

As you can see the mass majority of gear in this game is not race specific. The people making fun of people who don't want to unlock it....I mean people have opinions? They might not match yours, but no need to be salty.

The people in the camp of "lets unlock the race specific underwear".... the majority of the gear in the game by a large margin is already exactly the way you want it: not race specific.

So some people may just want to keep the small amount of it we have because they prefer having some stuff that is only for their race of choice; opinions differ sometimes. That's all.

I understand why people want it unlocked (even part of me wants it too cause I like some of those hempen sets for other races), but don't get all uppity at people just because they prefer to keep it race specific. As you can see there is some reasoning behind it likely and that the majority of the gear in the game already caters to your preference of not being race specific.