Due to the undisputed fact that Mechanostrider are a very very ugly and paineful mount to watch, listen to, sitting on and moving on. Gnomes should, as a consequence of this be able, free of rep. to pick one other fraction mount.
Even #nochangers would simply have to agree on this since its just such a bad mount to be stuck with.
Nonsense he is asking for the mechanical noises to be a permanent part of the sound scape for gnomes, aswell as smoke particles. After all they are evil little mechanical dolls with no souls.