I find it annoying that these two armor sets are bugged with respect to the Matching Set Perk - they do not apply the bonus 25% armor that they should.

How do you handle this in your game? Ignore the set and move on to the next higher one (Daedra, Dragon sets) or just wear them regardless of the drop in armor from whatever you're already wearing?

Personally? I could give a crap about x% bonus. My character finds what he likes and uses it. Period.

It does bother me and I will avoid the sets. Hoping the Januay data patch fixes things like this.

I haven't noticed, as my Ebony set is something like 900 AC and the cap is 567.