I'm sorry to break the OP rules, but i can't just stay quiet looking how the same people keeps criticizing the horizontal system with reused arguments, as a FFXI player i have never been discriminated for not having certain piece of gear, and once i became the sub-leader of an endgame LS i never asked anyone to have certain piece and have always welcomed everyone into bosses, raids etc... and i can say the same thing about other MMOs, except for wow which i have not played for long. This discrimination caused by horizontal progression is a myth, i have only seen it once in FFXI and it was caused by bad design choices on SE's part, who decided to place procs on bosses to weaken them or enhance the drop rate, and the only way to proc those effects was by wearing a relic, a mythic or an enphyrean weapon.

The only discrimination you'll see in this game with one system or another will be the 1 mistake=kick on party finder.

If you hate the system vote against it, but stop trying to make it invalid, you are just confusing people with lies.

Also note i prefer a hybrid mode.