FFXI R/M/E Thoughts:

[Daemon]

The way I see it, SoA is the current focus right now and that's why REM has been pushed aside for the time being. It doesn't make sense to implement REM right now during the moment SoA is being built. Otherwise time would be wasted making an adjustment only to be outdated again later.

On top of that I think drawing attention from SoA would do more harm than good until people get use to playing the new expansion.

Had REM been fixed before SoA is complete the expansion wouldn't be populated as much due to scattering the community to various parts of the game.

That being my point of view I think the DEV TEAM will implement upgrades when the time is right.

So hang in there I think they know already how the community feels about it.