I'll just reuse my own words:
Reasoning is simple: those who want to use other variants can happily do so. Those who had no interest in doing so can carry on as per usual. Choosing to make unisex gears tbh felt more like a way for devs to cut corner in my eyes than anything else, but I don't think that's the thread's main focus. Tangential? Sure.[...]And also please please PLEASE. Let it be known that I do NOT want a unisex gear! I want to have options to wear both variants of gears!! You know what’s better? Make 3 types: M, F, and Unisex. Now you have 3 options to pick!
They won’t do that, but just putting that one out because the devs really love to misinterpret “We want the option to wear both male & female clothing” as “So you want one unisex gear!!”.