Gender locked race?

[Shougun]

To be fair, I don't know exactly how WoW deals with their races and gear and such, it could be a lot simpler for them and their system or art style, for example.

It would be a bit more accurate to suggest WoW pumped out a bunch of subraces (FFXIV clans), rather than comparable to FFXIV races. Although it's still neat, if you're into that thing. Like Daralii, and Roda, says a lot of them have minor changes like colors - which simplifies things a lot. The new racials are neat (races in that game have special abilities), if perhaps a bit imbalanced compared to other races lol.

An example might be if they took the Au Ra we have now but add some more demonic options to meet their concept art, perhaps tiny modifications to the female body (or using another race's body) and making it more seductive like some concept art (not as smoll and cute).

Or if they added a Vivi-construct race, which would probably be rather straight forward in terms of customization lol. (using lalafell animations).

I think the new "allied"races is a fun gimmick, so I'm not trying to knock it, but a lot of them are not quite what you might think requires the full work of a new race (a lot of cost effective choices were made for a number of them, not all).