Quote Originally Posted by LineageRazor View Post
Plus, it would save the developers from having to waste time creating recipes like Uraeus Coat, whose sole purpose is to be a glamour item that looks like Kirimu Coat.
It actually saves them time to do it like this so they can come up with 4 different recipies for the same gear model, which takes a lot less time than creating 4 different coats. Same reason why they make stuff not dyeable - they wait a few months and then put a new recipie for some old piece of gear and brand it as new content.

The class identity is so not why they're doing this.