I agree with OP.

This set honestly should have been craftable. I'm paying for the game, and they keep adding normal-looking gear for more and more dollars on the store. The really fancy outfits on there, or the NPC cosplays, I get. I even buy those sometimes. But this trend of more expensive outfits that make it feel like instead of playing the game to dress my character (I do a LOT of content for the outfits), they're just trying to remove that step and demand more money at the same time. This set also doesn't allow viera and hrothgar hats in a step away from promises. It makes me feel bad about spending any money on the mogstation at all because I'm losing faith in it.

Other points of faith lost: they haven't had a sale on anything that wasn't an event item since January, and then it was a handful of mounts. I usually use sales to outfit my alts with emotes and sometimes skips but those sales haven't existed either. Also, the event sales have been offset this year until a week into the event, so if I want to get stuff for the event for alts, it makes me wait a week and then the event feels super short because it is already half over by the time the store sale goes up.

I love this game and hate that the online store is making me start to feel bad about giving SE any money, because it keeps asking for more in a way that feels like it doesn't respect us as players.