Jeesh I never even thought of that. It’s not a very welcoming change, is it?
For the record, I am a professional dyer. We do thousands of yards of specialty textiles a year, all by hand. You can make the dyes in the space of a mortar and pestle. I won’t say how easy it is or how hard it is to dye a piece of clothing-sized material, but it does not take anywhere near the physical space of a standard armorer bench.
The whole issue has been handled distastefully. Strange things bring people back into games, and the free ability to dye clothing and gear was very attractive to me, after I saw VintageBeef doing poorly at it. This freedom brought me back into the game after a long pause, back in 2017. We’re losing freedoms for “declutter.” Is that the state of things?