Quote Originally Posted by Allegor View Post
Garleans are literally Elezen customized models - the race doesn't even have a "base" design other than being 'taller Hyur', so it'd be miles easier to just add their forehead pearl things as a glamour option than add them as a whole new race that would bring problems from all sides, from lore to coding.
The lore part of it is not difficult to surmount at all. In terms of whether there would be more efficient ways to represent them as a race given the rather severe limitations this game seems to suffer from thanks to how it was designed? Yes, no doubt.