I don't see why this can't be fixed in the future. Especially for anything you can get base gear for but would have to grind again to make dye-able after having already done this once.

This seems like one of those features to me that they probably have on their long list of QoL updates to get to, haven't spoken on it in any recent LLs, but will spring on us randomly. There were quite a few things they never talked about in the 6.1 LLs or prelim patch notes that were in the final patch notes.

They also did this with Male Viera. Said nothing to us about getting it, kept saying "No, no, no" to new races and we ended up with them as a surprise for 6.0. No one even thought it was coming. So I hold out some hope this will be one of those things.

I got all this class gear once, I shouldn't have to jump through hoops to get it again. Or even have to go find the NPC I can get it from since it's usually not free. I might feel different if you could just walk up and be handed the gear free once you've acquired it once. If re-imagining the Armoire is too big a task for the present, I don't see how even with spaghetti code they couldn't rework salvagers to hand over already previously acquired class gear for free.