At release, I had assumed that 60 1-star gear would be equal to law gear, since that's what they did in 2.0. Philosophy started uncapped (like law) and both were i70.

The statement that crafted gear is always lesser to raid gear is true in the pure iLvl sense. But people proved out in 2.4 that pentamelded i110 gear could be as good if not better than i130 gear. The fact that the entire playerbase that wants to do these high ilvl requirement is pretty much forced to do hunts with no other option is pretty bad.