Ok...let me level with you here SE...

[Mahoro]

While I understand your viewpoint more now, and sympathize with it to an extent, you are playing the wrong game if you boil everything down to your worth in manhours and use that to judge whether to participate in an event (especially because not everything has a market alternative). I hesitate to use the hackneyed phrase "don't hate the playa, hate the game," but I can't think of anything more appropriate. Most of the game is a grind. I could have made reams of gil farming when I was spamming Akvan for Heka Kalasiris, but I went ahead and did the event because I wanted the gear, not the gil. Most people who play this game do not weigh their choice of activities based on individual manhours to gil ratio.

I would submit that you "wised up" because of FF in 2012, which is a different creature from FF in 2005. These days, most stuff can be lowmanned, almost EVERYTHING has a market alternative, and you can make scads of gil from just spamming JA's in Dynamis. But even today, if you were to go after Voidwatch and/or Legion stuff, you would need to sacrifice your "worth in time/gil" to mindlessly spam stuff because unfortunately that is what most of the endgame is now. Abyssea was a flash in the pan where the gear grew on trees and you could literally measure the effort you put in resulting in rewards put out.

As for fun, hell most people in my shell last night had fun when they chose the right clone and we killed ADL, and wow something actually DROPPED (from Tome NM's too, which will be liquidated for the LS bank). They enjoyed the change of pace from endless Logwatch.