"Items are locked behind microtransactions because the playerbase is lazy to do hard content" is the funniest defense of corporate greed I've seen in a while. Making cosmetics Mogstation only doesn't make them more accessible, especially not at the ridiculous prices. A good chunk of people can't afford to drop 30 EUR on every single outfit, especially said outfit not even being account-wide. Meanwhile, getting together a small group of people to run old content unsynced after it's outdated is something anyone can do.