my guess is, at at some point after new skeleton models were made, there was some sort of issue with a client properly displaying old non basic skeleton texture, so SOE figured- everyone will be using new model anyway, and just disabled it =)
This would be consistent with typical SOE logic: "Umm looks like we broke boats! But don't bother fixing them, gnomes will take of that!"
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