I'm excited personally for the new expansion, there's a lot of new stuff I can't wait to try. Though I've been playing only for two years I'm still learning a lot about the game and it's community. Like, what seems, a lot of you the new races have raised a lot of questions, the gender locking doesn't bother me. It's silly, but I see why they did it. No doubt one day in the future Viera will be male and H'rothgar will be female.
But one thing that won't change are the H'rothgar themselves. I was really surprised since I thought the Amalj'aa were inspired by the Ronso.

I know I'm not the only one who thinks it's really strange to add more cat races to the game. I just don't understand why, and I wanted to hear from the H'rothgar supporting people out there.

Why, if this is the last race to be add, did we need even more cats? Why are you ok with more cat people? Why not any other race like the wolf men added in Stormblood? Seems they would have filled the void of a more beast like race.

I guess if I have to say why I feel the Viera are an okay addition it's because they seem like the type of race that would evolve alongside the Miqo'te and Au ra. FFXIV has had lots of references and shared themes with the likes of 3, 6, 11, and 12. With the story the Viera felt rather natural. The H'rothgar not as much, only if because of the existence of Miqo'te. If the Miqo'te had not been around the H'rothgar would have felt more natural and make more sense. Like, say we humans had a second race of large super hairy monkey men running around. :P

Well just my opinion, wanted to vent a bit here and get some opinion. Hoping someone out there can convince me otherwise. Because so far the new H'rothgar race is the only real reason I'm so apprehensive over the new expansion.