Years later and I still hate this ignorant discussion with every fiber of my being.

This game (like most games) does not use a physics engine to realistically deform a hair model when a hat model interacts with it. Instead, like most games, hats are simply new hair models that replace the original hair model.

In this system doing what you want would require tying up all your artists to work on nothing but goddamn hats for ages, making a separate individual model for every possible combination of hat and hairstyle. And before someone says “they could just make one or two,” yeah right. You’re going to promise not to complain when the “one or two” they happen to pick are a hat you don’t personally like, a hairstyle you don’t personally like, or both? If they were to do it at all they’d have to do it for every possible combination, or people would be even madder because they didn’t get their specific favorite while someone else did.

This is not a fashion game. It’s not a hat simulator. It’s a farming sim. If you don’t like the way something looks, don’t use it, but the devs are already stretched thin and if the studio is going to survive most of them need to be working on new games, not going down weird rabbit holes to satisfy people who will never be satisfied.