Stuff like this is what prevents people from enjoying the game. "No matter what I do now is gonna be trashed in the expansion so might as well stop now or...just come back for the expansion". It is honestly a shame. Someone should really come up with a way to add new content without trashing peoples' progress, all this is doing is further frustrate and discourage the already overly tedious grind this game offers. Even though I'm still subscribed because SE is my favourite company and I have a lot of admiration for Yoshida and what his DEV team did for this game, I must admit I haven't even stepped on FFXIV for at least 2 months for this exact reason.