U can hide your hood its in the options, and don't forget this MMO like all others is a living animal, If they gave every colour available at launch in a years time ppl would complain the crafting was boring because nothing new has been made available.
Anyway I craft and I enjoy it. Although I don't agree with people saying crafted gear should be of a lower tier than raiding, I can at lvl 50 jumping into a raid get a lucky roll on a kill and gear out with minimal effort (not that raiding takes minimal effort but u don't have to be a hard core raider to get into a raid) whereas Crafter's can spend months and tens of thousands of Credits building up there Skills ...honestly which has taken the most effort??. I just believe there should be multiple ways to earn top tier gear including epic quest for Crafter's to get those schematics not just a lucky roll. Reward the effort and the effort isn't always raiding