so you have reached monopoly, once more congratulation. in a monopoly, the consumer is given no choice and thus no care
it was never about what kind of gear was available in the VP, it was about giving back a little something that might be useful and to players
which was more evident in the old VP shop when players could buy fun stuff like pets and legacy gear, and useful stuff like recipes that were sold in limited quantities by NPCs and constantly camped by bots
when 264 and 271 gear was introduced after the old one was abandoned, it was a way to to tell my own crew that if your luck were awful, you could always use VP to compensate for a piece or two. It was stated by the GMs themselves that it would take years for someone to gear up an toon from scratch with VP alone, trying to insinuate that all the gear in my guild came from VP alone is redundant, one simply cannot VOTE for 277 and legendaries
it was never about the gear, it was about the apparent lack of care shown to the community