Yeah your 200m item that takes weeks of time to make you cannot bypass with gil is sometimes situationally better or a literal macro piece while aeonics are free, take 4-5 hours to finish with a proper group and are better nearly all the time.
THAT is the issue.
THAT is why aeonics need to be nerfed into the ground or have a step added that makes them cost 200m+, which honestly still wouldn't be enough since you can make EIGHTEEN people one aeonic in a day while it takes WEEKS to make a single mythic or emp.
Aeonics were just a gigantic mistake, they go against the entire design of the game and don't belong. They need to be forgotten and left behind to rot as we move forward.