I'm curious...what is the point of your first question? You are obviously capable of finding the quote on your own, and additional searching would lead you to realize by now that this is the only recent official statement on said topic.
Regarding regearing, you can simply pull out and use the same mods assuming you stay in the same dps role, and the recent abundance of adaptive armor makes this point trivial. Players who change raid roles (tank/heal/dps) will have more difficulty since acquiring a whole different set of mods will take more time than just switching armor type.