I also vote for a 75+ restriction for the Abyssea areas like the OP. I sea no valid reason why the hell it should be accessable to a character level 30+ Everything in the zone and may it be the weakest monster there is, will one shot that character and if it were done, would annihilate a whole level 30 alliance within a mere fraction of a minute. So why allow a character to join those areas.

Going there is absolutly pointless at that level. Oh it is not? It is for leveling I hear? Leveling what? If a character lv 30 "levels in there" it is nothing else than leeching while doing nothing and even if you are the chest opener, all you do is /item "forbidden key" <t> which cannot be considered leveling in my opinion. It is just plain wrong.

Not only does it leave you without skill ups or actual training for your so "awesomely leveled job" but it also destroys all the other zones outside of Abyssea and the meaning of leveling up itself. Can one possibly be proud of a character leeched from 30 to 90 in a day? Can one possibly feel accomplished about that? If so, for what? "Yay I got 15 level 90 jobs in a month!!!" maybe? Honestly, awesome done, really, your better at leeching than a Poison Leech from Buburimu, I'd be proud of that as well.

The levels in between around 45 and 70 are -completely brutal- unless you know people who'll let you leech in Abyssea or have a low-man XP group that meets consistently.
Oh yeah, is that so? Is that why you want the cap to stay so low? Now let us think about why it is so "unnamely brutal to find a good working XP party, du or trio! I give you five seconds, 1, 2 ... actually I just name it: It is exactly that low Abyssea requirment. I have gotten answers of level 40s like "No, I am waiting for an Abyssea shout where I can be the key person" or "No, I only accept Abyssea". All I could do is shake my head at these people.

1 person says put a cap on the zone, everybody else says no thanks. Wait 2 weeks, another thread pops up.
1 person every 2 weeks and EVERYONE else is against it? Uhm let us just go through this thread: I count... 1, uhm, 2, oh look there a 3rd... that's already worth 6 weeks of 1 vs all fighting. Honestly, your judgment is far of. Almost all the people I know would vote for a higher level requirment namely 75+ or even 80+ and I can see many more people in this thread already than you are ready to acknowledge.

To populate the normal maps again and bring back the fun of leveling up, Abyssea has to be closed for lower levels for good. I didn't enjoy myself as much as I did about a month ago, when I actually got a party in East Ronfaure [S] with my lv 62 THF (I was more than ready to sync it down to finally do a party out of abyssea) when the XP was still so "awefully low and leveling even more brutal and humiliating" than it is now. I rather work for my level than doing nothing and leeching and so I stayed there for about 6hours and not a single minute has been boring, while leeching in Abyssea is boring from the first minute on!