At least the netherite chestplate brings some strats.

I would have rather had that to work towards or nothing at all (them not putting it on the front page of the update hyping us up). Even if it was an underpowered end game reward it is still content to keep us busy until another update. I assume this would apply to all armor so you could make more varieties of armors to mix and match playstyles. Now you don't have just the basic full diamond max enchants. You have specialized armors and specialized enchants for each set you use for different purposes. Elytra leather for exploration in cold powdered snow biomes, gold for nether, netherite max for its knockback and durability. I think they should focus more on sidegrades to keep the armor interesting instead of everyone just using elytra and Netherite ALL the time.