I totally agree that BiS gear shouldn't just come from grinding easy content. BUT the most lame part of this whole deal is not just the fact that it all comes from spamming that one dungeon - the most lame part, in my opinion, is the fact that it's mostly just bunched up on a vendor NPC for no reason whatsoever.

Why the heck would you put equipment emblematic of each job, that is also about on par with the best gear in the game, on a single vendor NPC that has them up for trade for easily obtainable trinkets? More so when their (much) lesser counterparts, the AF you get from job quests, are made out to be a big deal in their respective quests even though they aren't, yet these, which actually are pretty damn good, are all just bunched up on this one trader, who has an infinite supply of them for no apparent reason. What? Not only is that lame as hell gameplay-wise (because the only way to get the currency to obtain them is to spam an easy dungeon constantly - and stomach all the waiting due to a most blatantly obvious time sink), but it is also lame as hell lore-wise - lore breaking, even. Why?