Don't think anything is wrong with it. He's right people don't need to log in to play all the time. What we are looking at here is a want not a need. Not everybody is OCD like a lot of us here on the forums about getting everything.

They implied this event will be recurring so the average player will eventually get these items just not during the first run. Also the earrings aren't necessarily a mandatory item. They were a luxury thing put in for hardcore players and average ones to get eventually when the event comes back again.

They mentioned additional rewards for fates. I'm betting these special poetic tombstones will be back when expansion launches and when event hits again you'll be able to use the ones you collected while doing fates from the expansion