Agreed.
It's a nice little diversion, but I think more people might do it if:
- We could earn gil and farm for drops
- We could harvest (they could add a "forage" ability or some such)
- We could complete more RoE objectives (like access to more areas, and harvesting) to ease the level grind and get more sparks
- We had more species to choose from
- We had more double exp opportunities
- We could party together for exp
- We could earn merits/capacity points once we hit 99
- We could keep NM status outside of Belligerency (or perhaps have more Belligerency areas with more level variety, for those who are trying to level grind/sparks farm quickly)