Quote Originally Posted by Siddiax View Post
I've yet to see a single compelling argument against having no restrictions.
The likely actual argument is a technical one. They probably cannot selectively make some designs free for all while keeping others (eg. job artifact gear) locked down. Or maybe they can't even allow glamouring without the gear being made equippable. I think their behaviour just make more sense if you start from this assumption, whether you agree with the outcome or not.

And I think it's clear that they're happy to share some designs around while keeping others locked down. There are some outfits that they regularly share from one class to another, either through new role-specific sets or replica gear like the sky pirate sets, but even then there are individual outfits that just don't pass the barrier between light and heavy outfits. Other outfits never get shared around, but the whole set of gear gets reused without any reconfiguration, and these are usually the ones that followed the role designs most strictly: armour for tanks, light gear for DPS, robes for mages.

So the closest thing to an argument is that they likely will not unlock everything because there are things they want to keep locked down, even if they do sometimes make exceptions to their own design rules, and they possibly cannot release things selectively.

And they always have, always will recycle sets, so hypothetically convincing them to free up glamour restrictions wouldn't stop them from continuing to do that. So the argument that "they're only keeping things locked down so they can recycle it for other classes later" doesn't really work – especially when we've just had a whole expansion of gear they don't want to shuffle.