What's the point of always "changing" the tomestones?

[Skivvy]

It's called a rat race for a reason

But the race wouldn't change at all. You'd still be grinding out 3 sets of tomes, they'd just stop wasting their time renaming the tiers every 6 months.

I guess the transition phase might be a consideration, like if the new gear was going to use an existing tome you could buy 2K worth right from the start. So switching to a new tome makes everybody start at zero again for a new tier and they control your pacing a bit that way.

The transition would make sense, at least when viewing it from SE's eyes. I get that SE wants to keep everyone at the same progress level, but it really wouldn't hurt to come into a patch 2 weeks ahead of the game had you been stockpiling your tomes.