I honestly thought there was some semblance of a chance that I could get over this, but I can't. This is making me more and more angry every time I make a new piece of gear and change it to the color I want I can't use it or the stats are wrong.

Why would you make color effect who can equip something?
Why would you make it change the stats?

This doesn't make any sense. Please, please fix this.

I never in my wildest dreams would have thought such a stupidly simple feature could be so game breaking for me.