The desire to dress in modern clothing in FFXIV comes from the same type of mindset that insists all fantasy media has to have 21st century moral and cultural values and you have to have multicultural cities and girlbosses and homosexuality is 100% normal and not even the evil people are homophobes and you're not allowed to create a world unless it's just a coat of paint over 2025 California and a vehicle to express your hot takes in politics.