Glamours will be needlessly annoying...

[Djeserit]

Yep, adding maybe two or three really cool looking outfits/armor sets per DoH that they could make for the vanity system would have been much better. They'd have made more money and it would have added more to the game than another annoying hurdle.

The problem with that idea, however, is that it wouldn't be consumable, and thus also unsustainable. The way glamours are being done, assuming the crystal is slotted in a materia-like fashion, means you will have to buy another crystal every time you upgrade a piece of gear. This is (potentially) a consistent revenue stream*, whereas new gear sets would just be 1-and-done if slotted in vanity slots.

Edit: Was misinformed.
Either way, my point still stands. Everyone complains that the economy is broken and there's nothing to spend gil on, so they try to add consumable items to stimulate the economy. You then complain about the fact that it is too complicated.

* Maybe revenue stream was the wrong term, a more appropriate term would have been cash flow. People just won't be sitting on their gil now, they will be spending it on glamour crystals. This is a good first step to getting the economy going again. In the long run, however, it is up to the players to avoid crashing the prices.