how to get <lord's clogs> shoes and <yukata> armor?

[Naunet]

Actually, blizzard does charge for optional items in their cash shop. They even integrated the cash shop into the game back during pandaria so you can buy pets and mounts without even having to tab out.

These items are OPTIONAL and have nothing to do with your fee to access the game servers.

Oh for... we are not talking about random items. We're talking specifically about holiday items that have previously been available for gil and where a precedent was already set that holiday items from past years would continue to be available for gil.

I really don't get how anyone besides SE could defend this decision. You're literally trying to justify them removing things from the game and charging more real life money for them in a game where you already pay a subscription every month. Why would you want to defend such a thing? It's ridiculous.