I guess that could screw things up if you used alts.
Nosir, don't like it.
We need to be able to play alts without harming our Strategus play, in my opinion. I like my shielder but I'm not sure I want to be locked into that for all time -- playing my archer alt will be wasted "Hard Work" and speccing my main to archer will ruin my built up Hard Work on shielder stuff.
Arguably, I guess, crafters will be those dedicated few who wear the same thing day in and day out, whom other people look upon with disdain, until they need some cheap gear, anyway. I just hate having to choose between "doing the fun thing" (alts) and "doing the best thing" (1 guy with 1 set of gear that he wears all the time).