Abyssea is "free" to enter yet no such restrictions exist. Even the most useless mobs had a piece of gear one of the twenty classes could put to use.

We're supposed to be moving away from all-or-nothing yet Voidwatch ep.1 seems to be going right back into the quicksand that plagued Salvage where either you got a 35 or a waste of time.
Yeah, and I'm like 0/20 or so on Balaur. Even Abyssea still has a good chunk of mobs you could kill for weeks and not get what you want.