I don't really understand why we need to do so much waiting for the AF.

Consider, for a moment, you are a BLU and you are Fresh 99 and you got to 99 by any of the easy levelup paths available to you, and now you want to go out, learn spells, skill up, etc.

Well, the AF+1 armor would be a rather nice start to do this, right?

You do the AF Sword Quest (which is annoying to try to start, BTW), and then you do the AF Boots quest (and then turn them in to Monisette) and then you start Transformations.

Then you go to the shopkeeper to start working on your 3 other pieces, but what's this? It takes a full Game-Day for the piece to complete, AND you must wait ANOTHER game day? And then, you need to wait ANOTHER game-day for Monisette to get done with it, not once, but twice?

So, recap:

Day 1: Get Boots, drop boots off at Monisette. Start Hands.
Day 2: Get Hands, Get 109 Boots, give Monisette the Hands (for the +Learning obviously)
Day 3: Get 109 Hands, give Monisette the 109 Boots, start Body.
Day 4: Get 119 Boots, get Body, give Monisette Body.
Day 5: Start Legs, get 109 Body, give 109 Body to Monisette.
Day 6: Get Legs, get 119 Body, give Monisette the Legs.
Day 7: Get 109 Legs, give Monisette the 109 Legs.
Day 8: Get 119 Legs, give Monisette the 109 Hands.
Day 9: FINALLY! Get 119 Hands.

9..... stupid.... hours.... to finish the set.

Why can't the AF be "wait one game-hour" instead, like how the Chocobo License Quest was changed? That would make this a LOT more sensible.