Just be happy SE hasn't updated RME's yet. You want to wait until after the nest wave of Delve content so that RME's will be on par with that rather then them being left behind.
Tanaka had one vision of this game and it was a rather static one, hence the years of horizontal upgrades. It involved pouring untold hours into a system that involved heavy RNG rewards as a way to keep you paying sub fee's. That worked back when there wasn't much competition on the MMO market. Now the market is flooded with games and companies are constantly working out new ways to attract and keep player attention. It means SE needs to alter it's experience in order to attract new players and keep the current ones from jumping ship. This is what Matsui is in the process of doing. It's a giant reset button being pushed and it's going to be really hard.
SE needs to advertise FFXI now and create a system while "new" players start at level 75~90 with all the old "prerequisite" missions completed. Stuff like Sky / Sea access and all that. Currently a new player has entirely too much "old crap" they need to wade through to play with everyone else, this makes them get bored and severely limits your new subscriptions.