Whatever they showed us wasn't definitive and I totally understand why they would want to keep characters looking relatively the same. It would be kinda weird to log in and see that your character isn't the same.

I think the devs setting the expectations on the lower side is a safe call. From what I can tell, it seems like they want to move to a better lighting and updated textures. Tbh the game now looks like an early PS3 game, the textures being pretty low res and it shows on certain glamours when you zoom in (aka Hien's outfit, some other mogstation outfits).

I'm more interested in how they'll handle the outfits looking like they flow better since they said that they don't want to add a physics system to the outfits.

Regardless I was honestly surprised that they wanted to do a graphical update but I guess since the next expansion will be in the vision of the team rather than 1.0's, they want to make it look nice. I liked the transparency because they want to do this but they're only human and it will be a gradual process.