Something doesn't make sense about the recent un-genderlocking.

[Nihility]

Viera use the female midlander body so there is no real "updating" needed, the game just scales it to fit their skeleton.

I could be wrong but I think all females use the same base model which actually isn't super far off from male midlander already making female gear only take about a third of the effort as male which may explain why female only gear tends to be a bit more intricate. A fair tradeoff for not having three different body models
personally I would rather they spend their time making headgear work on viera and hrothgar, that seems like far more of an injustice to me