But... they outright announced that a lot of headgear wont work and that they might make the occassional piece available later. I dont understand why people are getting mad about this when they clearly told us what to expect: If you pick a Hrothgar or Viera you wont be able to use most headgear. I dont remember them saying that they'd make everything available with 5.1 or even at all...

With the special head-features the Hrothgar and Viera have, adjusting the headgear seems to be more complexe so they made the choice no-headgear instead of headgear friendlier, but less "special" heads - and anyone of us can make the choice wether we'd rather have all helmets for our character or play one of the new races.
Its something we all knew about before and getting mad about this actually being the truth and not just something Yoshi-P said as a joke or whatever people must have believed he was talking about there is a little bit surprising...