Please please revert this change. The loss of all of that texture and detail for the sake of more glow is just too much. Apart from anything the Sylvari now look completely stylistically removed from their environment because the environment art is so much more subtle and “waxy” as others have put it. We have been playing for a year now with the old art and I haven’t seen any uproar about glow. Losing those details for a dubious improvement that will only affect, if I remember the day/night cycle correctly, the 40% of playtime when the glow is actually visible is not a fair trade.
And finally to echo what has been said already: it is generally a bad idea to change a reward that players have spent time earning without a very very good reason.