While it would have been awesome to actually quest for the AF gear, I was under the impression that the reason they are Eso gear was so that it would actually have relevance, for at least a little while.

Had they been quest items, giving how they did AF1, they would have largely been outclassed by a few pieces of level cap gear and perhaps they wanted use out of them besides vanity. (And I honestly have no idea how the gear matches with Savage, I'm assuming this line of thought was more directly to me and my dirty non-raiding ways.)