When it introduced layered armor in Monster Hunter: World's Iceborne expansion, it was an entirely separate process from crafting regular armor. Stuff was locked behind enough quests and mountains of required materials that, in the end, I gave up and stuck to some set I grabbed during an event quest.

Call me impatient – please do, you are correct – but it's taken just weeks for Monster Hunter Wilds to worm its way straight into my brain like a Baldur's Gate 3 tadpole and install a countdown to Master Rank.