Garlean Playable Race (?)

[Iscah]

They've already been up and down on the technical limitations and that the time and labor costs increase with every additional race/gender added. While they said we're getting male viera in 6.0 and female hrothgar "later", they also said that the work to make male viera was done on the graphics team's free time. Us getting male viera isn't going to magically allow us to get everything under the moon. They didn't open the floodgates to new races as much as they somehow actually managed to squeeze a few drops of blood from a stone.

This. This is important to grasp.

They said that they couldn't afford to add more races. And then they have looked at their resources and decided "okay, maybe we can squeeze just one more in to complete what we already started".

That is not a sign that they can add more again. That's a sign that – unless the resources available to them change – they can't add anything more because they just used up their last bit of wiggle room.

The existence of one extra thing does not automatically mean they can add every other thing people want to suggest, because it has taken up the resources that might have been needed to fund the other thing and you can't have both.