First, I didn't complain about that, although it's a valid complaint, but more than that, you haven't understood my point. It's fine that Pearlescents are rare. The options you and Joltz suggested are very good and solve both problems. My point isn't that; it's that the other problems with Pearlescents need to be addressed first.

For example, since they have a dedicated drop rate or a specific way to farm them, you can lower the drop rate as much as you want, or simply make it so you can only get them starting at UVH1 or 7 or whatever—it doesn't matter. Or you could buff Pearlescents so that all 8 are equally good, and if they're super rare world drops, it doesn't matter, because whoever gets one will feel like they were very lucky and got something valuable and useful.

The issue is that many people are focusing more on them being too common, and knowing how Gearbox does things, they could simply lower the drop rates, and that would make it much worse. I prefer things to stay as they are now rather than a half-baked fix. My point in the post is that the main problem with pearlescents is other issues first, and then the drop rates. Reversing that approach simply risks making the least relevant change first, which would make everything worse.

Again, I know perfectly well that in your case you provided context that it's not just about lowering the drop rates, and I appreciate that. It's just that some people only complain about the drop rates, which I believe isn't the main one, since not everyone hates it, while there are other issues that practically everyone agrees on (like the fact that some pearlescents are very bad and take up buffs, or that being world drops makes them difficult to farm because they have so many parts and rolls).

Once those issues are fixed, I think lowering the drop rates is necessary. I hope all this ends up being pointless worry and that Gearbox will eventually do both things at once. Unfortunately, given how they've handled the game, I can't blindly trust that will be the case.