This is the direction they should go imo. As I’ve said before, I appreciated the male courtesans being added to Karazhan far more than I did them turning women into fruit.
A friend of mine went through a phase of turning up to raids on his male panda almost entirely naked (as you can be in WoW) save for a pirate hat and boots and it was absolutely hilarious.
It’s the only way. And you don’t even have to take one of the Korean games. FF14, with all the limitations the glamour system has, is still outrageously fun with regards to your clothing/armour options. And it doesn’t matter if you’re male or female - one of my FC’s officers (male Highlander) would turn up to raids in his signature colour matched thong, thigh highs and wizard hat outfit. That was a glorious man! Had a catboi who would often glam it up to rival the girls’ seductive outfits.
It would be wrong to say no one cared, because we cared a lot, but in a positive way. Your glam was part of your self expression and people were genuinely happy when they found a new piece they could work with. Sproutlings would stop doing the MSQ to run off on side adventures because there was new glam to be had.
And this is what bothers me most. Blizzard are shooting themselves in the foot with regards to player motivation IMO. They had the right idea when they started addding transmog options to Torghast, as transmogs are a huge motivator for a lot of people to do content. However, most of the transmogs in SL suuuuuuuuuck. There are only so many spikes and skulls in varying shades of grey I can stomach. The “grim and dark knight of the grimdark” demographic has ben well catered to by now, can we have some more fun and colourful transmogs please? It’s such a shame that you have to go back 15 years to get pieces that don’t look like they’ve been dragged through the mud a couple of times.
And the censorship that blizzard did just confirms this. Do you remember how they calmed down when the censorship started that they would not remove the older tmogs? Now you can’t be so sure.
personally i prefer my characters to wear functional armors rather then whatever the op wants if you want that kind of gear there a bunch of sexist asian mmos waiting for you