I was on the ol’ Vic20 playing text based adventures with a piece of paper and pen drawing what would many years later look like a visio workflow diagram to map out the screen says after going N E S W lol.
Do I need to identify as a random shaped block to play Tetris?
For many games what matters is gameplay, not immersion.
I’m surprised as to how many people shut this argument down. It is a big issue that gets brought up by new players and existing players fairly often (in my opinion). It may not be the most discussed problem since the game has other more important issues but it is definetly steering players away and like the OP said: it makes the game feel cheap.
Low priority or not people notice these things and sometimes they just don’t voice their thoughts on the issue. It’s like going to a restaurant and you get a bad meal once and never return. People simply move away and never return on become annoyed each time they find a unique piece of armour only to find out it looks like the level 20 armour they already had. The only option to change your look is paid skins which would be fine if there was a transmog system for existing gear but that does not exist either.
Overall i think this is a very valid point that is being overlooked by the developers and by the loyal fans of the game. (And i fully understand that things take time and devs have different priorities. I respect it but the issue still remains)