I had one equipped. I made an Ascended Back of Ugliness. I figured I’d apply the spineguard skin to it, which would just make it invisible. It’s not one of the skins.
You may say, “Well, you just hide it!”
Well, that’s all well and good, but not convenient if you have a few sets of armor that you flip between quickly (d-click all the pieces out of the bag, including weapon change and back piece) for different situations, and the back piece for that set is a flower, and you’d like it shown.
Just…really seems strange that it’s not a skin.