White Raven earring given out at The Rising event 2018

[Nixxe]

But that earring was never the point of the fight.

All the more reason it shouldn't be an issue. People were doing the content because it was there to do, out of enjoyment for playing the game per se. The reward was just a bonus, and thus it doesn't undercut anyone's motivations for doing the content to hand it out years in the future.