Cuts on the hands were so annoying, they made you twinge every time you touched things. Wouldn't it make sense to put most of the armor on the parts you fought with?

"Sometime tomorrow I'm going to hunt you down and get an entire transcript of whatever the heck you keep babbling about," he commented, puzzling over a pair of gardening gloves before slipping them on. Battle gauntlets, obviously, although they weren't powered or augmented like regular ones.