I also don't get the need for this going "beyond cap". The game survived how long with the cap set at 75? 7 years? 8?
Then why exactely is a "level cap increase through item level" necessary now?
Just fix things, balance things, widen up the things we can do, offer new content, make so old content is still fun, interesting and efficient to do.

Stop breaking this game damn it, stop trying to adapt Game Models from other MMOs into FFXI, it's not gonna work! FFXI survived this long because it was unique and different from everything else. Stop attempting to make it the same as all the rest. You don't do that to an over 11 years old game!
Can we please get some more competent people in the dev team? Someone who actually *CARES* for this game, before it completely falls apart piece after piece?