In your official wow forums style posting, red-misted rage for someone insulting Blizzard, you missed what I was discussing, which was the recycling of iconic class tier armor sets as non-set epics, as I expanded on from the dye issue. There is NO defense for it, as people want their class to be special and stand out, "that's a geared out _____ right there", let alone make each character individual to user taste. Can it be really that expensive, that time consuming, that man-power needed to design one generic armor set per proficiency so they don't shit on classes tier sets? No, and if any company CAN address this via resources, I'm sure Blizzard can afford to in various ways.
Lazy, on the cheap, whatever you want to call it, that's what it feels like when the leader of MMOs can't address an issue that is in many cases paramont to those who love to play MMOs. Dance studio is a guilty pleasure of mine, but the dilution of classes and individuality is something that bothers many more people, as expressed here.