I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who was annoyed by this. I have my inventory ordered in a particular way and I spent the first hour and a half I was on after launch going through my inventory and retainers.

Additionally, I had to manually merge all multiple stacks together across all of my retainers and inventory. So that didn't help matters any.

And then when I finally finished and gave up on even dealing with the glamour dresser, for now, I ran off to do Ananta Beast Tribe quests to find the servers would be shutting down again within 10 minutes. And 2 hours later when I logged on again, NPCs were invisible everywhere I went even after 3-5 minute loading screens. And I don't have a poor system nor poor internet. It was fine before the emergency maintenance. I finally gave up and logged off for the day.

It was a very frustrating morning.

But it isn't the end of the world even if I don't like it. Maybe they will listen to the feedback. One can only hope.