it certainly won't change anything...
people who doesn't put factions or gold bonus on their weapons just focus more on pve/pvp damage and they will certainly continue because they just have different priorities than yours.
and there is no really good or bad choices with that.
i don't have all characters nor all weapons, but i don't care, i'll maybe have them someday or not. what's important to me is to have fun with the characters i play and enough gold to buy the characters and weapons i want, and i have enough gold for that.
moreover my fun comes from winning match, as raider or antags, and i win enough gold for that too.
so, as my priority is bashing the head of any antag who shows up or decimating raiders and not being a capitalist, you can do all the changes you want, i'll always chose gold bonus on weapons as my last choice.
EDIT:
(and that's absolutly off topics, but i played as antag doldren in the mission hanging by a thread, earlier in the afternoon and i encountered a team with two low ranks and two T1. i remember a sooma and a kuzman, don't remember the 2 others.
and i hadn't even finished my second kill that they surrendered.
less than 1 minutes from the start...
as you are the quickest quitter/surrenderer/suicidal player that i know, i'm asking, were you one of the T1 of the team ?) =)