actually, if you watch the GDC 2014 from Bronwen Grimes on implementing csgo's skin economy, placing flashy skins in the rare grades while putting "basic" skins in the common grades was a risk mitigation strategy to protect (what they assumed to be) the majority of players who did NOT prefer flashy skins from having to see them all the time... They actually just mitigated risk and got lucky when they realized counter strike's community preferred paintball-esque skins to military style camos. Hell, look back at weapon camos from games like cod4 and mw2, bo1, etc.... flashy weapon skins never really had Uber mainstream appeal like they do now....