I think that when the majority of players have certain tastes and those tastes are ignored in favour of appeasing a vocal minority of players instead then it is absolutely a waste of resources. Especially when the original stance of the development team was to embrace traditional aesthetics and now we're missing out on common features such as masculine hairstyles because the majority of new hairstyles are designed to be 'unisex' in a way that just perpetuates androgynous and feminine aesthetics.

I also think that it is very interesting that it's almost always people playing female characters who are quick to downplay the criticism raised by those of us playing male characters.

I rather suspect that the stance would be very different if female characters were mostly only getting niche aesthetics themselves, such as being forced to have glamour designed to cover up all their feminine curves and hairstyles that were the equivalent of, say, a shaved head and little else.