People will complain no matter what is done. People complain when something is on the mogstation, people complain when something ISN'T available on the mogstation. People complained that housing was to expensive, people complain housing is too cheap. People complain that content is too difficult, people complain content is too easy.
This is not an argument. People complain about EVERYTHING.
Time gating is present to keep you from burning through all the content immediately and keep people playing longer. Buying craftable armor that isn't time gated anyway isn't circumventing this.