Cursed Veteran Boots as Cosmetics items

Hi,
I REALLY REALLY like the idea of the Cursed Veterans Boots, but they would be nicer as cosmetics rather than the extra penalty of removing the ability to equipe “boots” Set items.
Could you either:
1- Put Veteran difficulty into the challenge at character creation.
2- Put it as an Option we can opt in and out.
3- Put the boots as cosmetics so we are free to use another item.

Best regards.