A streamer recently did a vid on how long/much it would cost to transmog every armor piece in the game. The total was as expected, several thousand years or something.
Here’s the problem with this line of thinking though: if we can only earn 2 sets of armor per character per season, and at least 2 sets of NEW armor drop per season, how is it possible to transmog with any given amount of time the entirety of one’s collection? It’s not!!! The only way is to buy synth weave, and even then, every year when a new expansion releases, you will never get to the point of earning enough to complete a collection without buying it with silver.
It’s a bad and unfair system, and it effects new and old players alike.