Definitely a needed change, along with fixing female armor magically changing the character's bust-size, rather than conforming to the character's actual dimensions. If it's a problem gear-wise, then the problem should be fixed, not handwaved as fine the way it currently is because it would take more work to fix.

There's too many issues in this game that we're told won't be fixed because of the amount of work involved. I know we all want shiny new content, but that content isn't worth much if the basic infrastructure it's built on is too shakey to support features that are basic in many other modern games. Please, please, make some time in the development cycle to reevaluate and fix these issues, even if it means new content comes a little slower. It's fine if the fixes are difficult or time-consuming to put together, too, we're happy to wait for them to be done right, as long as we know they're being done.