What do you even need gil for? Repairs? Food that almost no one uses?
Dungeon gear is easy to obtain and outclasses almost anything crafted, not to mention how stupidly fast you'll level out of your gear. End game? Again, dungeon gear, and then darklight is incredibly fast and easy to obtain. Even AF beats out most crafted stuff. Maybe if materia melding wasn't made all but obsolete by the new caps, crafted gear would have more of a place. As is, the only classes that need crafted gear are the same ones who can probably make it themselves.