I would feel cheated, robbed, if I had the simple joyfulness associated with achieving things, taken away from me.
Every day, I hear the lonely sorrowful yells of the JobPoints Seller, as he mournfully spams the Chatbox with seedy offers to transform people into JobMasters for a sum of Gil.
I remember soloing and duoing my first two Jobmaster jobs, and it took a very long time, before all the rings and RoV bonuses etc. existed.
But I enjoyed it, because I love to play my jobs, and I felt a sense of excitement as I completed each fifty JobPoints and got closer to my Stars.
I still remember the journey, duoing with my best friend, the hard work, and the laughter too.
I think it would break my heart, if I wasn't able to have the sense of personal accomplishment, the thrill of achievement.
The same goes for RME, I farm all the items myself, or with my friends. I have a million happy memories of the adventures we had, farming those RME materials.
If I bought the materials with Gil, I would have missed out on all the memories, adventures, and sense of accomplishment.
I made so many new friends over the last seventeen years in Vana'diel, new friends I met by teaming up to accomplish things.
I think it must be an empty feeling, to just buy everything with Gil.
I also feel that new players, who may not know better, and who use Gil to buy JobMaster Status, and RME etc. are being robbed of those adventures, memories, new friendships, and sense of personal achievement.
I really would feel cheated, and robbed, if I had missed out on those experiences, missed out on the journey, by taking a short cut to the end. The journey is where all the actual important stuff is.
I could say that when my level twenty Tarutaru WHM kited a whole army of goblins to the Selbina zone line, to save the lives of my party members, it was so exciting and fun that I almost laughed myself sick afterwards.
All of those seemingly low-level and mundane moments, along the long journey, those are priceless memories.
We should cherish those accomplishments, those journey memories, and the friendships that blossomed from them.