Well, first, muscular women don't have to be ugly, unless they are overly muscular. Second, equal rights for both genders! And male miqo'tes don't have to be furry, it's really not much different from a female miqo'te, just make the emotes less female (observing male cats helps :P) and stick some ears and a tail on a hyur model... or something
How does it take a lot of work when at least one of them, namely male Miqo'te, already have their models, unless Tanaka was lying?this is really just cosmetic that needs a lot of work to put into stage , cant afford that for 1 year or 2.