Cheap stats... WTF, SquareEnix?

[Covenant]

I'm glad that I wasn't the only one that felt the path of progression was seriously hampered by SE. Just to keep pouring salt into the wound...look at the difference between a lvl 50-60 AF set and the lvl 75 AF+1 set or relic set. Not much difference despite being nearly 15 lvls higher. One would think that at least the standard defense would go up more than 5 pts or so. For mobs that hit 200-500 pts of damage what is an additional 10pts defense?

As most people said why bother with campaign gear nor AF when the first sets out of Abyssea were so much better? Or even after where dominion sets had terrible stats on them. Sure, some random Stetson but extremely underwhelming for being lbl 85 gear or so.

Once again, we are nearing year 10 and lvl 99 and I still feel this game leans towards lvl 75 extremely heavily. Rather than forwards towards lvl 99. For all intents and purpose we, players or our "avatars" are Legendary the challenges we faced both in the present, past and future should reflect this even more so than just giving us an earring with +1 INT.
Heck, we still cant even "2 Hour" more than once every 2 hours. At the very least, we should have had access to either our main jos 2 hour or our sub jobs 2 hr under the same timer.