There are plenty of tweets happy it was changed, and some complaining about it.
https://x.com/Portergauge/status/1823720378541466059?t=PbXPELgLLLO0dfTcFMZZBw&s=19
https://x.com/NicaraoGaming/status/1823797722018930926?t=V-AEVT20yWUGJrdje6cbtA&s=19
I actually think it’s a cool look that they’ve done with the chest wrappings. But yeah it is rude to change it now, months later, after everyone bought it as it was.
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This is why I never understood the immediate accusations of this being done for censorship rather than doing it because the original version looked a bit silly (it flat out looked incomplete to me, because any other top that was fully bare on males always had a wrap or bra for females instead of just using the default underwear).
I am fully on board with people being upset because the item changed without warning, and because of the way tops and shirts interact it broke some mogs. Blizzard should have simply given us two versions of each top instead of outright replacing the original.
But while Blizzard’s recent track record is kind of against them on this, a little critical thinking makes it pretty plain to me that they weren’t trying to censor anything with this change.
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Meanwhile players can just straight up hide their chest armor if they so desire. This change makes zero sense for any supposed reasons that people have dreamt up.
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Might also be because Xal’atah’s night elf form is a corpse.
Furthermore, bandages can and do look quite good when applied properly for folks. This is one of those cases I’d hedge my bet.
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These soccer mommies and daddies want everything censored, what a joke. Those stones looked really neat without the 2-pixel wraps
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Then make it only usable by male characters.
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I hope the 20th anniversary item is a big black censor bar mog. Just make everyone walking black censor bars. 
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I just kind of find it frustrating they would actively go out of their way to change a mog everyone spent months acquiring.
Like what the hell.
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This looks like it to me too, but outrage culture has effects on everyone. And no one matters except the golden people.
It’ll take a trans man complaining about it because it implies that the body they were born in (body 2) makes their chest inherently offensive.
In that case, why would it go live in the first place? It’s not like some artist is drawing armor directly into the live database, these things go through reviews and meeting before they go live. (Especially trading post items since there isn’t really a time crunch for them, they can always push them off to another month.)
That’s the part that really annoys me. If they didn’t want a trading post item that might show your bra, that’s fine. It’s petty and conservative and small-minded, but it’s fine. But what’s not fine is having so little confidence in their art that they’ll change course at the slightest sign of any pushback.
Ooookay, I’m gonna need you to put down the string and step away from the corkboard.
Yeah but that’s always the game you’re playing. 
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She’s secci!
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Players: “Blizzard needs to respect the lore! They are ignoring it way too much lately and desecrating it!”
Blizzards: Realizes the canon female blademasters had some sort of top on, varying from a strap to full on chestpiece, so they create a top that matches the beads so female players aren’t stuck in lore-breaking bras for wanting to play Blademaster
Players: “What the hell, no. Stop!”
I 100% agree they could have just made two versions and grant both to whoever owns the beads, but to say it ruined it/isn’t lore friendly is just blatantly wrong.
And to be frank, acting like the blademaster beads leaving female toons with a bra seemed like intentional is honestly a bit silly.
Yea, they shouldn’t have released them if they weren’t fully done, but shrug.
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yeah, you’re right they should take that option away along with the other options that allow hiding of covering.
This change has annoyed some people that wanted to wear them together with a shirt. However, they COULD make the new “bra” be graphically supressed by a shirt. As such if you wear a shirt, the shirt should take precedence. And there could also be optional helmet versions. Still, I dislike the forced change. As an option, great but it should not be forced. Personally, I never liked these things at all since they are simply too big for my taste.
There COULD be a visual neckless added. All necklesses would have an appearance that could be shown or altered by transmogrification.
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Yeah pretty lame. D:
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This is the cost of hiring activists instead of developers. When you have a workforce of highly opinionated people as well as a company reeling from accusations of workplace misconduct, they’ll bow to their own wishes.
I always found it funny how they were simultaneously trying to desexualize elements of WoW, while also making sure to constantly remind us that some male characters have husbands. Great, so does this game have sexuality or not? Or is it just sexuality that allows the company to virtue signal for approval?
Even if it’s nonsense like this. At the end of the day, player feedback is all that should matter, not the opinion of a blue haired dev who got hired last Fall.
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I don’t see why people are jumping to this conclusion when you can completely hide your chest armor. You can hide every armor slot now, so a person can run around in just their underwear if they want to.
It’d be nice if we could get some response from Blizzard, but I’m betting it’s a bug of some sort.
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You’re right they should remove the Hide option.
Hiding chest armor can be explained as “every other armor piece can be hidden.”
In this instance, I don’t think Blizzard wants to be perceived as selling sexualized outfits.