As a newer player, I find lore amazingly useful and handy and think everyone should have it at an early level. Might aswell be at 100% aswell.

Its so useful to the newer players, being able to sort the wheat from the chaft. If I had to go to Alduk every time I needed to identify some crap gear that is on the ground i'd need tens of thousands of gold and very big pockets to carry all that crap around. And to a new player, you can pick up a lot of crap.
Lore mainly helps the newer players which is what we need so might aswell make it as available as we can.

Perhaps alter it so that lore doesn't work on limited items or something, so that Identify and Alduk are still needed but the newbies can still lore a pair of baggy trousers for the 100th time as we forgot.