Well, actually this is pretty much it.
They want hairloss to be stabilized before doing some highly intrusive surgeries to fix this...that's common sense actually...a surgeon doing hair transplants on a young patient not even under medications...that surgeon is a huge piece of sh*t, if he even exists.
That's what my derm said to me when i was 15, after clearly identified Androgenetic Alopecia, and i quote :
"Get on treatments and stabilize it, then when you'll be 30 we can consider hair transplant, but not before, we can't know for sure if you're gonna be a responder and where/when your hairloss is gonna halt, if it ever"
I'm 32 now, this was in early 2000's.Of course he also clearly stated minoxidil only for now, no finasteride before you're out of puberty...again, just common sense.
Since you're 26, at that time you were only discovering what a peepee is and what you can do with it when you're alone in your bedroom, and i was discovering what are DHT, Androgenetic Alopecia, DP cells, Big3.....FML