Not able to dye certain gear - community thoughts?

[Obreck]

Well let's see it makes everyone lvl 50 look exactly the same in some misguided attempt to keep the gear "unique". And now we're all uniquely ununique.

I don't care if someone else doesn't like I've changed the color of my clothes, I should have more say in my character's appearance than some stranger that feels the default colors are "iconic". They didn't earn my gear for me, I likely never play with them, and quite frankly justifying these restrictions just so they won't have suffer seeing other people in recolored gear in town is rather selfish. It won't stop their right to stick with the default colors