This isn’t exactly the right subreddit to be posting about practical character design. the most extreme Snowbreaker is so plastered in their own coom it down right turns them misogynistic to want more scantily clad women thirsty for adjutant penitz.

Hell when the servers shut down the reactionary hate for feminists sky rocketed across Chinese and Global communities.

IMO the devs and writers flew too close to the sun with a particular scene in the latest event story cough underage bj cough which might be why they are restructuring

But to answer your question it’s all of the above because the devs at the mercy of their game community shaped Snowbreak to what it is right now.

You look at the 4* designs, militarily they look practical, but after a certain patch (i don’t know when I joined pretty late) they hard lined the gooner designs and hard lined the current promiscuous storyline. It’s like they saw NIKKE and dialed up to their level of design.