I look at Darklight gear as being hardcore content.

You have to draw a line somewhere between hardcore and casual content, or you'll end up pissing everyone off.

Make Darklight too easy to obtain = hardcores whining that there's nothing to do.
Make Artifact armor too difficult = casuals quitting because they can't make progress.

I think the game is set up fine as is. If Darklight was any easier to obtain, hardcores wouldn't be able to epeen with it. (personally, I think the heavy darklight body looks ridiculous btw)

I think things will settle down a bit after 2.0 is underway and we have more content being developed.