You don't like the armor I am fine with that, voice that they shouldn't do this again, and/or give better options so you have the choice.
At this point though, asking them to remove/change this is beyond ridiculous. I would rather see them implement appearance slots over wasting any time on old already outdated armor. If they did appearance slots, then those that really like the look (and there are people like that out there, I am not a fan of it, but I don't *hate* it...) would CHOOSE to show it, and everyone else would just look how they wanted to.
And to those asking why the made the *best* gear in the game like this, why am I stuck with this? Go run coil... Like, you can easily get into a pug group and clear turn 1 and 2 now. There is no reason you can't get an AF chest (which looks really cool) or dare I say, save up your myth tomes and get the AF2 chest which for PLD looks incredibly bad ass (I also like the WAR one too... just saying). It is far from the "best" set... and soon it will pale even more with the release of CT... there will be at a minimum of three pieces of gear better than this crappy chest.
Finally the complaint about the tome costs... it is the SAME price... Learn 2 Math... Chest + Helm = Chest/Helm... does it take you a couple extra runs before you get to actually make the upgrade? yes, does it matter? nope. Because all that content is completely faceroll by that point (or should be, since your chest/helm should be the last upgrade from AF, since the AF chest is REALLY good compared to your other crappy gear slots).
You and your guild will yes... But new people starting out will likely go practically straight fresh 50 into CT without getting hardly any gear upgrades. why do 14 CM runs (or whatever else), when you can just go right into CT with minimal gear upgrades. The only reason Full DL is practically mandatory (it isn't mandatory... but at this point if you are serious about coil, you might as well make it mandatory, weeds out the dedicated from the not...) is because of the noticeable gear gap. You know... iLvl 80... not there... when it is there, why would you kill yourself getting 70 pieces, just to have them all replaced in 2 seconds on a CT run?
And regarding the separation... I believe... could be wrong, but I believe they have shown the gear, it has been datamined, or something like that since all that stuff has actually been in the game files for a while. Just like how everyone knows what all the weapons will look like for Good King Mog.