I see no indication that this is a step towards phasing out the Armoire, considering it was made explicitly to work in conjunction with the Armoire.

I understand the point being made, the belief that the Armoire only exists to also hold glamour-only items. But I would expect them to maintain the Armoire as a concession. The Dresser will likely never be the only way to apply glamours as long as they continue to allow players to apply them manually (no real reason to take that away if the system just works as a shortcut), so they need to retain a way for players to recover their glamour items if they choose to disregard the Dresser: by using the Armoire.