Oh I've got an idea to make this good! You get two settings for it, right? One that's as current, and then another that automatically puts every player character into their class's artifact gear depending on level bracket.

So looking at a Paladin they'd be in the AF1 from levels 50 to 59, the AF2 from 60 to 69, the AF3 from 70 to 79, and then the AF4 at 80. The only thing of the character in question it takes into account is whether headgear is set visible or weapons display while not drawn.

As for before level 50, or for classes without all the sets of artifact armor, I dunno. Could just give them the hall of the novice sets from 1-29 and the Brayflox set from 30-49?

But setting on this 'immersion mode' would be a valid option for people who care about job identity, letting them undo all the glamour restrictions in the game right now for the rest of us who actually engage with the system.