Yes please, great QoL suggestion.
Not the same, but something I recently noticed is that splint mail has maybe 1 or 2 appropriate options, with the rest not even resembling splint mail or any kind of heavy armour in the first place.
I dunno if there's a modeler on the team right now, but maybe this would be a good idea:
There are some robes which resemble "cutoff" torso-only versions of other robes. These "cutoffs" are 12, 201, and 202. Two look more like cloth or leather, one is a chain shirt.
The robes they appear to be derived from are the "long tabard/surcoat" family of robes, 100-115 and 128-149.
If we could get "cutoff" versions of all of these robes, either as robes (like the existing 3) or as torso pieces, it could help solve the problem that banded mail, splint mail, and scale mail have relatively few appearance types that are appropriate, because most of these "long tabard/surcoat" robes resemble cloth, leather, chain, splint, banded/lamellar, scale, etc. type gear. They would be fantastic additions, creating a massive amount of variety across all armour types.
I would like to see them as torsos distributed across the appropriate armour types, and not just robes, because then we could combine them with some of the lower body robes to get hundreds of new looks not seen on any other server. But I don't really know how that would be implemented, just a wishlist item from me.
edit: This includes banded mail which is the same AC as splint mail