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If I didn't need corrective lenses, I could order a non-Asian fit frame online. I could have ordered e. g. POC glasses that were sold at a huge discount on wiggle that match my helmet, for example. But if you need corrective lenses, then an optician has to order and install the lenses for you. Plus, each optician usually has one company that they buy lenses from, and this can be a huge differentiator. The lenses I wear now have meh lenses (I think Hoya lenses), they suffer from glare and attract dirt more easily than the Zeiss lenses I had before. When you want e. g. photochromic lenses it makes an even bigger difference as the time it takes to adapt to the lighting situation and the minimal and maximal light absorption differs from maker to maker."Arbitrary" glasses - like "Normal World Fit" you mean? It's true engineer guys at Oakley probably stuck doing overtime like "GD'd Asians and their fucked up needing special geometry faces! lmao
So when you buy, say, Adidas sports glasses (which are also good for cycling) without corrective lenses, you get the lenses that Adidas is supplied with. Once you want corrective lenses (but not the clip-on option), you'd get lenses from the manufacturer that your optician has a contract with, say, Hoya. And the performance of Adidas's photochromic lenses may differ starkly from that of Hoya (I don't know, because they didn't have a sample). Needless to say, with corrective lenses, swapping them out to match your conditions is a non-starter, unless you are really wealthy. (In my case, a set of lenses runs me 40,000-50,000 ¥ per set.)
Some frames, e. g. some Oakleys and some Adidas frames, allow for clip on corrective lenses. They have the advantage that you can liberally change the front lenses to suit your needs (e. g. you can use contrast enhancing lenses or sunglasses or photochromic lenses). The downside is that the coverage of clip on corrective lenses is much smaller, and in ways that are important when cycling. You have significantly diminished peripheral vision which is essential in Japan to evade kamikaze cyclists on mamacharis who looking where they are going or taxi drivers who see you as an obstacle.