No, you'll wear your long armoured skirts and you'll like it!

(I'm joking by the way)

Seriously though, I agree variety in gear design is never a bad thing - ironically for tank, especially PLD, glamour, I prefer armour where the body curiass/breastplate are seperate, thus allowing greater creativity in glamour (I admit I have a preference for the Spring Skirt in this regard). Funnily enough, most tank armour pre level 50 was usually a plain breastplate or something similar without an armoured plate/chainmail skirt below it - it was only with later ARR and into HW did they start with the 'armoured trenchcoat/ballgown' look and have stuck with this almost exclusively.

I don't know if this is because the gear designers are different to the 1.0 ones and are designing what they like, but the variety creativity in gear design is starting to stagnate like the last years of Amaurot...