The Devs need a much needed thanks!

[Midareyukki]

hardly call my male "counterpart" an advance but anyway lol

Uhh you said it not me! xD

Still, yeah it might not be, but to a lot of people who do prefer playing Male Miqo'te it was We wouldn't have it had the devs not listened. Because originally they wanted us to have only male Roes and female Miqos.

it is a balance and there could be some culture involved as well. I am not saying QoL suggestions are bad to a degree.

secretive yes, I think their preference is to simply not give things away. how often, in many games, do off hand utterances get nailed down as hard facts by the playerbase as expectations? saying "its impossible" I think can be often translated as "we cant do it now" take the starting inventory in WoW, for years it was "impossible given the code and how its built into the game" yet one day, it magically increased in size. So I dont look at it as an outright falsehood, but more along the lines of "we cant do that in the present system" and they note it down as something they they can look into once other changes come into play.

people will demand unreasonable things anyway, thats more a human thing than a dev thing. plus, if they are doing something innovative, they arent going to tell the playerbase because the competition is looking for innovative ideas too. so its a double edged sword and if in testing, it doesnt work, then the playerbase is up in arms "but you said...."

Okay, I think what you mean, QoL does exist and it does stem from player feedback. Whereas we have additions that came at a really dumb cost, and we have suffered from that. A lot of people dislike the way Blue Mage was designed and implemented, despite knowing that the devs didn't want to implement such a job and they couldn't capture the way FF5 did it without it being either too broken or too esoteric. (And yes, I'm setting aside the ideas people had to implement the job into the game).

But even that last bit, like... A lot of people forget that the reason we don't have Glam Dressers in housing yet is because it breaks the way housing is designed. If anyone messes with the furnishings, it would interfere with the glam dresser's code and it would bork. And we can't just have an error saying "You cannot edit the house's layout while someone is using the Glamour Dresser", because if there's an FC where people aren't being cordial with one another, they're going to abuse it and not let others edit their house. It's one of those cases where it works on paper, but the game just doesn't support it. And then people get frustrated because they promised something out of fan demand, but couldn't match it.

Or, in the wise words of Yoshida when hearing a fan asking for something actually unreasonable...
NIGHTMEAH...

[Kes13a]

But even that last bit, like... A lot of people forget that the reason we don't have Glam Dressers in housing yet is because it breaks the way housing is designed. If anyone messes with the furnishings, it would interfere with the glam dresser's code and it would bork. And we can't just have an error saying "You cannot edit the house's layout while someone is using the Glamour Dresser", because if there's an FC where people aren't being cordial with one another, they're going to abuse it and not let others edit their house. It's one of those cases where it works on paper, but the game just doesn't support it. And then people get frustrated because they promised something out of fan demand, but couldn't match it.

I am happy they enjoy playing them, really...

exactly. I mean glam dressers in houses are likely something they may have noted to look into when they change how the layout is put together. some things just currently DO NOT WORK TOGETHER. doesnt mean that cant change, and thats fine. but then you get decisions of "well, this works as it stands.. but it could work better" balanced with "everyone and their dog is crying for this new feature" and guess what gets worked on first, it isnt the wonky but working current feature