We all know Sortie and Prime Weapons is the last big thing to come to FFXI and will probably will be the last big thing as the Dev team has been downsized. But Being a 40+ year old Player (that started this game before COP) and came back to it a few years ago, i don't have the Time in a day to grind out 1 Million (then eventually 2.5 Mil, then who knows how much Gallimaufry).
I fully understand that the Dev team wants us to play and enjoy the game and play the content they made and not just blow thought all the content and then be done with it. But people now have multiple jobs and would enjoy making multiple of these if it didn't take months to farm enough Gallimaufry to get these done. Yes there is teams out there doing 65k per run, but most people do 20-30k normally maybe even up to 40k, but i know there is solo players that average 10-14k a run and it would take them 6 months of farming every day for those 6 months.
My recommendation Cut the cost of Gallimaufry in Half, (at least but 1/2 is fair), But Double or increase the number of Voracious Psyche needed, as these are capped at 5 per month, it would extend the time needed to get a prime weapon and keep it gated still, but it lowers people's time commitment in farming Gallimaufry 1 hour a day for months on end. We are not 20 year old's any more we have families, Jobs etc we just don't all have that kind of time any more.
Advantages to this it would also allow people to upgrade more empyrean armor to Stage 2/3 and not feel like it sets you back 2-3 farming runs. It also would help with burn out, I know a lot of people burn out doing Odyssey (I've had 2 statics break on me as i got V15 unlocks) I would just hate to see the same happen for Sortie. There is less incentive to do Sortie then Odyssey as with Odyssey you can make decent Gil doing farming runs of points with Sortie there isn't that extra incentive so it feels more like a Chore.
I realize that nothing will come of this as I'm not even sure the Developers read these (or support) but as a Dev my self I see this as a way to make the it less of a grind and help improve the user experience, i know myself would make multiple prime weapons if i could but not if i need to fame 3.5+Million Gallimaufry (I image the last step will me 5-10 mil) I don't even think I'll be able to do one as it would take me 140 farming runs (getting 25k per run) that is over 4 months of farming every day 1hr, 140hrs of farming for a weapon that we don't even know will be good or not that we could use outside of Sortie. I don't know about you, but I don't think i want to sink that much time into a maybe.