Who hates Gold,silver and gem design like me?

Making design pieces for so many characters is very time consuming, especially when the dev team is also designing new characters, balancing the game, and creating new maps. But I will admit that while having one item and then a gold version of it would be okay, having a gold, silver, gem, and bronze version of items is very frustrating

I don't hate them, but I wish we were given an option to buy it, like "the bling pack" in GW1.

It is what it is though

I don't think that I hate them per se, as some variant versions look pretty good, but I do think that they "pad the numbers" just a tad for the press release; saying you added 1,200 new customization items sounds a lot more spectacular than saying that you added 240 unique new items in addition to 4 additional palette swaps of each those items.