I know it doesn't REALLY matter, but I wish you could change your "City-State"

[Enkidoh]

Especially when taking the boat to Old Sharlayan for the first time, it kind of felt like you were "meant" to start in Limsa. Plus, Limsa Lominsa is ALWAYS listed first, even on the teleporting menu.

The boat scene travelling to Old Sharlayan early in EW's story was actually referencing 1.0 in that it actually reconstructed the starting scene for a player starting in Limsa Lominsa in 1.0, right down to using the same camera views and hearing Hydaelyn's voice through the Echo, at least, up to climbing the stairs (if you can track down a copy of the old 1.0 Benchmark program, it actually includes this scene more or less in it's entirety).

Limsa Lominsa was the first city revealed in 1.0's development and also was the city used in the Alpha and Beta tests in 1.0 and so also figured in a lot of the early promotional material to the game (contrasting with ARR where Gridania was the early focus instead).

It was simply a callback to FFXIV's early history and not representative of any one city being the 'canon' story, as all three stories combine anyway fairly early on, and your starting city choice is rarely if ever mentioned again.

I think the reason SE never bothered with allowing you to change city state alliegance was not just because of this reason, they probably believe that as it's only important for a very short time early on, that if a player wanted to experience "the other city stories", then they probably assumed it was easier just to create an alt and play through those alternate city storylines then with another character rather than allowing you to get the "full experience" on one character only.

Of course this is not the same thing, but as SE has never stated any opinion on this subject I think they probably don't consider it a problem or necessary to change I'm afraid.