Well, I understand your concern about lore, but I don’t share it.
Now, getting a maxed weapon is really easy. Also, I really would prefer that they permit us to paint our weapons… even if I guess that now, they decided to sell color skins weapon by weapon (and here they can wait me that I buy a single weapon skin).
They will probably want you to buy them from the shop… at 700 aquilas per skin
So a friendly price of 28 000 aquilas (700 x 40 families weapons)
I can’t remember how much they sold the weapon colors packs, but I think it was 900 aquilas. So, they applied an increase (if I remember well the old price) of 3 011 %. Better than the inflation.