Even if they did that, do you really think people would buy the second box twice? Do you really think people would've even been okay with that? I can guarantee you if they tried to just release the modified bug box as a new box just weeks after releasing the original, people would've started a riot. People already drained their wallets on this last box and the equinox box. Releasing a new one right now would be completely pointless.

Also, I feel an offsite survey is pretty pointless. We can just discuss on this forum. I'd rather not just hand my email out to random people in the forum.

Anyways, I definitely prefer the new armors, but still have some issues. The coloring was the most glaring issue by far and with that mostly resolved everything looks a lot better to me. Still though, it's undeniable that some detail was removed. It's important not to get too crazy with adding detail to the armors but I think that the Pollinator Plates' legs actually look really flat now. Let's take 2 extremes: Dusky and Divine. Dusky's legs actually look mostly fine. The dark color is just enough to distinguish the top and bottom halves of the legs, but the Divine legs are so bright that it kinda looks like 1 flat color with its line separating plates being pretty hard to see from the front. I would've darkened the top or bottom halves of the legs on these things just a little more. The divine fur on the pollinator plate is also too bright compared to the rest of the armor imo.

I don't have a before and after view of the hexoskeleton armors but atm I think they have a great balance of metallic effect now.

One thing I don't think many people noticed yet is that the WIZARD BOX stuff had some changes as well, albeit just a few. There are some oddities like every casting cone seeming to have the same collar color when they were each unique before, but I am very glad to see the boots were brightened up somewhat. I would've made the boots less fancy as to not draw attention away from the robe itself. I also saw some photos of the shoulder plates for sorcerer robes having the darker colors brightened. This could be fine but those darker colors matched with a lot of parts for the rest of the armor. Those other spots weren't changed alongside the plates so they kinda mismatch now.

If anything, the wizard box not being mentioned in the patch notes has me wondering if this was even intentional? I do think the collars and sorc robe plates should be reverted but I do like the legs being less dark even if the boots have a bit too much going on.

Overall, I think these changes are a big improvement. Some details were lost and there are instances where I think an overcorrection was made but I'd take the new looks in a heartbeat over what we had before. Given that the artist is probably a new addition to the team seeing as we haven't had actually new content in years, I think action as drastic as retroactively tweaking the look of paid content is acceptable this time. I imagine they're still trying to get used to the style this game uses. This should not, however, be allowed to become a pattern. Things like this rarely happen in other games for a reason.