Hello. i recently bought the game (a month ago) and i missed apollyon's event which brought some of the best looking gear to the game. now. i understand that not repeating events or reviving gear makes the gear that some players got "more meaningful" but i'm sure most players would rather get the gears they missed than to have gears that are very special, not to mention players who have recently joined the game, i.e people like me, and in my opinion it's pretty useless to have a gear in the game that will never ever be obtained again unless you spent hours on a game on a specific date. i love this game's gear system and i think most people would prefer having that crusader-looking helmet for warden and aramusha's black mask than for it to be more meaningful for players who did get it.
I recently started to play for honor too my friend and while i dont agree with it I understand where you are coming from because i also missed out on the test your metal event. but coming from games like world of warcraft i understand why they dont make this gear obtainable again, it gives the players that have been putting in the work something that set's them apart from the newer ones and I am ok with that. But here's the bright side there will be other event's with cooler and better gear. they might do an event that rewards the actual armor from the faction boss's or something like that. Our day will come brother
You will get 95% of armors and weapons just by playing game, the event gear for most characters was actually just recolors and retextures. Now animations and gestures lootable during event only is different thing. But still, this os only cosmetic stuff, no actual relevant gear is time limited (or not to my knowledge).