Well we've had item level stuff for a year now, and it's totally changed the game. I don't like the system simply because I hate having my gear outdated as fast as I can get the items and get them upgraded, but I do like the content, and I don't want SE to go back and revamp everything about Adoulin, and that's exactly what they would have to do. I like the idea of expanding our merit categories, and I hope they use that route, along with job points to make our characters stronger in the future because those are semi-permanent increases to our stats and abilities rather than the temporary ones we get from gear, and with a few added categories here and there we could make our characters strong enough, (with our current ilevel 119 gear) to match any future content SE put out.

My vote is don't mess with the system, don't raise item levels any higher, just give us more merit and job point categories and let us use more merit points per category