I actually quite like the tier 2 armor sets. They look like neat designs you would see in a Trails or a Xeno game. I do think Alexandria's modern aesthetics would have been better received had the NPCs been walking around in cooler gear like this from the get go, rather than the egregious hoodies with rainbow LED lights (and ofcourse, the repercussions a modern urban city being isekaied into a medieval fantasy world actually explored). While the designs are cool on their own, SE has not made them feel integrated into the FF14 setting.