Pfft, only reason to wear armor is to look good. Min-maxing your way to godhood is too easy.
Believe me, those gauntlets aren't min-maxing me to godhood at all, they just give my arrows some well needed punch, considering I don't have any talents in the archery tree, it's very useful when you are slow as fuck and go against certain enemies.
Plus considering I have every single talent in the smith tree and 100 smithing, means it has been a large part of my leveling, thus things being scaled higher levels to match mine, so my armour is important because my combat skills would be below the average compaired to the level it's scaling for, bonuses on whatever I can get is useful.
Plus if anyone wanted to look good, they probably wouldn't wear many of the armours at all, they're mostly ugly as fuck.