would be cool if it was turned into a construction manual book allowing for the hard hat to be sold again
Like I said:
I can understand the argument for the Apron, but that logic does not stretch to the hard hat or anything else, since those were available, people could buy them, and there was a clear path to trade after. Different situations.
I could understand making the existing ones gold/shiny, but even that doesn't seem entirely necessary to me.
I think people just need to relax about the cosmetics in general. I'd take the way that Facepunch is doing it every time over non-tradable ugly slop like Valorant, COD, Fortnite, Battlefield, etc offers.