Are fungus tunics classic?

[Wakanda]

(I ask all the weird questions here because I feel like it's the most active subforum and probably the least likely to get in trouble).

I remember Fungus Tunics back in the day being fairly cheap on my server, and something that people referred to as a great twink item, but otherwise not that useful. Like it was super common to see Monks on my server wearing Phase Spider Carapaces, or their Kael/SS equivalent. Meanwhile on P99 it feels like everyone wears a Fungus tunic even at max level?

Like were they always super good, and we just didn't know better, or like? It kind of confuses me. 20+ years ago I remember getting a Hierophant cloak in Seb group one time and someone offering me a Fungus Tunic for it. I was like hell no ! Why would I want some twink item?? Like I couldn't fathom taking my Shadow chestguard off and putting on an ugly fungus tunic with terrible stats.