To seperate from those who want to dress the minimum and those who want to do more is to start a division. I never met anyone who stayed with the minimum once they got started and decided to stay.
I guess most folks or rather all folks I know do this just for fun, maybe it's me that is missing something, is there someone out there that does what they do for something other than fun? I await with held breath.
I now see what you and others mean and are concerned over.
To answer your second statement, it has been well stated that the shooting competition and the desire to win a SASS match is the driving force for several. In the same respect for others the simulation of what may have been a real gun fight is the driving force(not all guns at once). Which one is correct? Who cares we offer both, you choose which category. Is that wrong? As you continue to state, steel is not PC but neither is 4/5 guns at once.
All the classes before Originals were already divisions within the club. Division to allow people with common interest/shooting styles to interact together with in the rules and By-laws. Why does clothing/dress and correct matching of items in a time frame create a perceived greater divisions? The use of speed enhancing devices would create an even deeper division between member over time if allowed. The competitive drive to win or be on top, creates a deep division, then add money into the factor, like in SASS. Well!!!!
So you tell me what is driving this division?
It ain't really clothing and appearances or the use of only two guns. It is the overall desire to be competitive and stay competitive, to use similar items like the club where the money is.
I, like others, use to have fun with all 4 gun at matches in the 90's and thought of attending EOT. But now I don't need or have to shoot all of them at one sitting in order to have fun with friend or people with overlapping interest. I am not competitive enough to want to beat the other person to the very top but only as for as my finance and desires let me achieve. So I am happy and having fun.
Once again only my personal opinion.
Editted: One thing to remember the interest in shooting different classes started years and years ago, even before I started. So the divisions where already starting by your theory of any new class is a division of the group. But understand one thing I would be more than happy to talk and share ideas/conversion with anyone from any other shooting category.
Also think about this, the division you preceive begins the moment you send in your entry form with "names of whom you would like to be paired up with". Well we all go for our own friends/posse members and afterward we still hang with our own. Thereby, sometimes never having the chance or desire to talk to new people.
To stop the appearance of division or perception of not liking one another, don't have SASS like shoots, where you fly though the course of fire and then pack up and head home. Let people talk, have the comradre and have fun.