And it's idiotic. Why should it be ridiculous for people to make money.
This dev team leader is idiotic, why would it be suprising they do idiotic things? They make content designed to keep over half the playerbase from even attempting it to keep the "overpowered" gear very rare, they sure won't shirk away from nerfing a gil fountain like this.

FFXI is going back to old ways, old ways = nerf any means of making gil that's easy. Don't remember when they nerfed the NPC prices of weapons from mobs in castle O? or nerfing the npc prices of Bird Blood etc?