Gear design

[Belhi]

If people need to be incentivized to do a content then this content is a failure and should as well disappear.

You say this and then complain about the incentive that raiders get?

Design opinion is subjective. I think a lot of the PvP sets look rubbish while raiding has had some of the best sets in the game.

As for giving crafters the dyeable versions of previous sets, I think that is their way of throwing crafters a bone. They need to give crafters something of value and while it would be nice to have every craftable set be a unique design, that isn't really feasible from a resource perspective.

GW2 unlocks things skin by skin and I can't recall any cases where there's 2 variants that dye (or don't) differently for a skin.
For armour at least. Weapon skins do have clones.

GW2 releases sets at a much slower pace. We get multiple sets for each class every 3.5 months. GW2 is lucky to get that in 6 months. I think HoT only had like 3 new sets.