I think I need to reiterate that I think Final fantasy’s biggest failure is its highly detailed human models. Because of the amount of detail and expression they put into them, they can’t dedicate the same amount of attention to fantasy races. And without proper playable fantasy races, your game isn’t an interesting or immersive world worth playing for me.
Hrothgar are the poster childen of this-- they find making expressions for their one nonhuman race to be such a herculean task that they downright neglect them.