My biggest (but very minor) complaint about DQ 1 HD ending (Minor spoilers)

As the title says, I just completed the game about 10 minutes ago and this has been my biggest complaint about the game but it is a very minor, essentially non-issue, complaint.

After beating the final boss, the cutscene of you finishing him off your characters armour and gear has changed on your sprite to Erdricks armour set. I like that, I wish it changed in game when you had the full set equipped but I didn't expect it to but I liked seeing the change.

The part that annoys me though is once you leave the castle, your sprite is suddenly back to normal for the rest of the ending. Did your character just whip it all off and toss it aside once he was done!? Why is he not kitted out anymore?

Overall though, enjoyed the game more than I expected since I prefer having a full party of people and fully went in to this expecting to just kinda "Meh" my way through the game.