I get that it's the next tier of armour and so everything has to be BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER BEFORE, but there's a lot to be said about subtlety.
At the very least, if Bioware insists on making outrageous endgame gear that looks ridiculous, the least they could do is begin adding new customizable social gear that we can opt for instead. You know, social gear that doesn't look ridiculously stupid and uncharacteristic of the classes, or come in a terrible palette of colours.
What happened to clothes? Were they not invented until 3000 years later?