gear swapping was an admitted mistake, they kept it going though, but it really was retarded, in fact it just rewarded people for using windower, with its infinite swaps.
If they want to bring back the cool parts of gear swapping, they need to make a system where you can take stats off of gear and add it to your charachter or some such. Its stupid that most of the time your charachter doesnt exist due to an exploit. Do a ws and disapear, oh wait you need one for boost one for chakra one for most ws, mass quantities of gear, on for blink one for footwork, one for dragon kick.
man, it was a mistake, Im glad its gone, hope it never comes back. If you want to choose your stats/gear abilities for one fight go for it, thats pretty cool actually (one advantage of the armory system) but changing multiple times per fight, disappearing, sure many people did it but it should never have been