Completely agree with you about it being insulting chaos. I as well have never had any of the head piece visuals enabled and probably never will if I can help it lol. I guess since I've figured out which helm is a bandit mask type for the TR then I can change him later when I put on my lvl 60 set.
Yeah I've decided not to change my TR as the look he has is rugged like I want, just wanted to change his eye color and see if the new beards were any good really. I just think it's silly that if you really want to look different as an elf now you have to wear a mask/helmet.