I don't understand your arguement. The suggestion wasn't to limit gear any more. It was to make high level gear do less for lowbies. There are severals reasons:


Here are some reasons:
1. At low levels, fighting classes already have a steep edge in pk.
2. Correct me if I'm wrong, but spells and supplications are how casters + utility classes survive against huge damroll. At low levels, there's huge damroll.. But not the spells and supplications.
3. Pk aside, this sort of gear is allowing people to level faster then the curve should allow.

Benefits:
leveling is normalized for more people.
mages and utility characters don't get 1-rounded.
people get to use more skills in pk fights because they will last longer at low levels.