I'm quite happy to find "invisible" gloves. What I do find irritating is this:
"Don't make other people who think it looks good as it is suffer over your personal preference, especially when you can already do something about it in game without asking the devs to change its appearance."
1. You have your preferences, I have mine, so don't bring in the 'other people' arguement.
2. My initial point was that I thought it was a BUG! AFAIK this is the ONLY Gi (apart from some which are just chest altering items) that doesn't affect hand slots. Which although not ultimately confirming it is a bug, is actually a damned sight better than your reasoning/proof of why you think it's not the case.
3. The reason why I'm doing things like this and this is because you like to emphasise things in a condescending manner.