My advice would be to avoid looking like a walking lightbulb and to not be afraid to combine different colours, e.g. black pants + red coat, instead of going for matching colours on all equipment pieces.

Genuinely curious about what's wrong with John Norf? Looks like a generic but decent mog, imo.

^This.
Another thing that we can stop is ignoring the themes / voting for mogs that clearly don't adhere to the given themes

Ooooh! This is indeed big news. Thanks for sharing :)

I don't see it. What kind of restrictions do you mean?

Welcome (back) to the Better Place™.

Had this happen to me while Timewalking earlier today, too. Teleporting out of the dungeon and back in worked for us to fix the issue in that particular run.