Ok, I have a theory here, and I hope I’m right.
I think most would agree that we haven’t been exactly getting a ton of new armor peices, and a lot of models seem to be reused for newer updates. I find it quite unlikely that Anet’s artists just got lazy, or that many of them were secretly fired. They are probably just working on something else. If that something else is an expansion, then it would explain this situation nicely. If the expansion is what we usually get from MMO’s, then we can expect a bunch of new zones with art different from the ones we have now, new enemy models, a bunch of new armor models from leveling, new dungeons and such, and possible a new race. If that’s what they are working on, they guess who gets to do most work for an expansion like that? Artists, of course. If all their artists are working on things that are kept under wraps for now, and only one or two are either assigned to add things for current releases, or pause their work to do a quick reskin, that would explain what’s going on.
