Originally Posted by
MariaArvana
To be technical, yes. Not for actual difficulty, but because of time.
Upending a system so deeply rooted into the foundation coding of the game as how item data is structured is not a simple feat as it can spiral and cascade into countless other issues that use the item structure coding. Given the amount of stuff they have to develop every 3.5-4 months on their patch cycles, it's most likely not a risk they're willing to dive into unless its purely as a side-project to be done in the small scraps of time they have between patch cycles. And if they're going to tackle a huge project like this, they're much more likely to tackle something that the playerbase has far more outcry for, like a re-worked glamour system.
TL : DR, they'd have to alter and change coding extremely fundamentally built into the foundation of the game, a project they're not going to take on lightly (if at all), and something that would take a long time to develop. So don't get your hopes up.