I'm pretty sure their explanation would go pretty much like this:

"It was very early morning. Treasure Hunter stumbled out alone into a wet brick street. Southward the barrage balloons, Treasure Hunter values on the combers of morning, were increasing, pink and pearl, in the chat log.

They've cut Treasure Hunter loose again, he's back on the street, no drops, last chance for a numerical increase 'n' he blew it...

Why didn't they keep Treasure Hunter on at that Notorious Monster for as long as they said they would - wasn't it supposed to be a few Vana'diel days? No explanation - just "Cheerio!" and the onionskin sending him back to that Abyssea-Tahrongi. The Windurst Kid, and that Galka the Sandorian and his sidekick Manthra have been all his world for these recent days ... there were still problems to be worked out, adventures not yet completed, coercions and vast deals to be made on the order of the old woman's arrangement for getting her Treasure Hunter over the Notorious Monster. But now, rudely, here's that lack of drops again.

But something's different ... something's ... been changed ... don't mean to increase Treasure Hunter values, folks, but - well for instance he could almost swear values increase, or change anyway. Some of the Treasure Hunter value increases are pretty slick, but others he can spot, all right. Xmas shopping yesterday at that Abyssea-Tahrongi, he caught a certain pair of Glavoid Shells in the toy section, past a heap of balsa-wood Adamantoises and little-kid-size Wyrms. A hint of constancy to what shows up in the rearview mirror of his Chocobo, no color or model he can pin down but something always present inside the tiny frame, has led him to start checking out other drop rates when he goes off on a morning's work. Things on Glavoid at Abyssea-Tahrongi seem not to be where they were. Girls have found excuses not to keep appointments. He feels he's being gently separated from the life he lived before going into Abyssea-Tahrongi. Even in Abyssea - Grauberg there's always a Treasure Hunter value increase behind him being careful not to talk, rattle paper, laugh too loud : Treasure Hunter's been to enough movies that he can pick up an anomaly like that right away."

So, I don't know how helpful it would actually be.