Yeah, itemization is BY FAR my greatest gripe with the two DOS and I complained so often about it at any given chance that I wouldn't be surprised if someone thought I was mental at this point.
I don't want random stats, I don't want numbers escalating out of control but more than anything I want CONSISTENCY. If it's just a basic iron sword, it should have the same stats of any other basic iron sword across the entire game.
The fact that those three "cuirasses" in the screenshots have literally different categories (light, medium, heavy) seems to suggest their name/description combo is just some placeholder that fits most armors in the game at this point, though.
Or at least that's my hope.
I hope Larian can at least manage to not fuck up the itemization in a game where the D&D rules already did most of the heavy lifting for them.