I tend to agree. Blizzard is very inconsistent in their standards, as many are pointing out here, so I wouldn’t mind a compromise of recolors. That way the originals still feel like a nice accomplishment for those who did take the time to earn them, but some of the amazing models can still be earned for those who didn’t get a chance in a recolor of them.
I also wouldn’t mind it if they just let people go earn the originals still through the mage tower through a similar challenge–not through an easy mode remix (again, unless it were a recolor). While the mage tower did get significantly easier by the end of Legion, it was still a decent solo challenge for many players, and the challenge was very different depending on which class and spec you attempted it on, so some of them were still rough even at the end of Legion. I did it on some both early in Legion and at the end.