Today I upgraded my first loadout to silver just to take a look at the differences. The problem I found is that, as expected, the RNG meant that I didn’t get the combination of traits I might have liked. The skin, however, was nice enough that I’d like to use it, just to have something a bit different. Therein lies the issue for me. I’m not really concerned about the RNG aspect and the concept of loadouts - but mixing in the cosmetic aspect is a little restricting.
Basically, it’d be nice to have separate cosmetics that can be equipped alongside/on top of the loadout, or allow us to merge cards so that you don’t have to pick between the cosmetic look you want and the combination of weapons/traits you like. This said, I do understand the game needs some long term things for people to work on, but I just don’t feel that blowing a few weeks of credits trading up cards and still not getting one you want/will use isn’t encouraging or fun.