if your wasting development time on it might as well throw in an option to hide it.

not that i ever see something like this coming about due to the incredible amount of work it would take to go back and re-texture and edit every dyable item with care to look atleast half way decent. not to mention it being something most people probably do not want or just do not care for at all. and the fact that it will increase the amount of time it would take to make future gear because now you have to add a whole new element to items. that could just be better spent making more new items instead.