...all the crafted leveling gear in HW were re-skins of ARR-gear. Its nothing new that we're getting re-skins of existing gear. Some of the dedicated glamour-gear we got in HW was a re-skin of ARR-stuff (that bard-coat and some casters-robes made into lvl1-non-restricted items).
You probably gonna call me out on whiteknighting the devs or something, but I can totally see that their art department has limitations aswell and wouldnt call them lazy for re-using models.