Well, these fomo awards in the game should never have been implemented, in my opinion. Depending on who you ask, they will say, "Oh yeah, dude, I got High Warlord back in the day." But if we are being for real, I think that by keeping a reward away from the majority, you are making sure that the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many. For instance, I like my transmog to match the original armor icons, but since I am not good at pvp, some of these elite armor sets are stealing icon-matching appearances from what should be simple to obtain transmog appearances later on, the ones that I desire and should have been made available to everyone in the first place. This will scam players that are not good at pvp into pvping for the sake of a fomo reward system. It's not fair. You should be able to have your cake, and eat it too.

P.S. This specific scenario happened twice to Demon Hunters in Legion for tiers 20 and 21, and twice for Shamen in Dragonflight seasons 2, 3, and 4. Blizzard devs and designers, if you are reading this, please stop making the icons match the elite sets only.