I agree with you in that such an unrestricted database would be a good thing. I have my own personal way of finding gear (grepping years and years of logs) but for people new to the game this would get them a leg up pretty quickly.

Having said that, there is literally zero percent chance of this being implemented with the current staff. You'd need to wait for my application to HEROIMM to be accepted. I'd be all for the information highway to help out people with 20+ less years than me.