I find it amusing they are arguing the logic of short hair in a game environment that features non-natural hair colors, cybernetic eyes and faster-than-light travel.
I can't see the reason here. Might as well let it have the aesthetics and jump the logic so it looks cool.
The logic is just for "FunTM" like lore. The real issue is that FD does not plan to add long hair to characters because of development reasons. Examples would be graphical issues, resource and deadline issues. People that do NOT care about the hard work that FD has done and shared with us, ignore those things......for rp reasons. Ridiculous.