If you are giving us aspects/fragments instead of exotic armors, I'd 100% take it

While exotic armor pieces is something we have been used to expect, most of the times they are not interesting, very restrictive to a certain playstyle or dead on arrival due to not being special enough to be used in most of the relevant content (example: GMs).

On the other hand, aspects and fragments are the opposite: allowing more custom build-crafting and even allowing some older and/or non-meta exotic armor pieces to be relevant once again.

Some people might be mad for this decision made, but I personally think that having some exotic armor pieces sometimes but more aspects, fragments or even supers would be even better.