why are minion drops so rare?

[FriendlyUncle]

I don't understand why something so incredibly useless is so rare. It's a collectable. I don't see why people are getting up in arms about this. We aren't talking about BiS gear here. We are talking about a little thing that follows you around and flops on the ground occasionally. Are you really gonna bitch and cry freebie over a minion vs battle equipment. We all ready have to grind for everything in the game, DoL/DoH/DoW/DoM gear, TT, Chocobo Race, Saucer tokens. Not everything needs to be a mindless, repetitive grind. It seems to me the only ones whining and crying about drop rate increase are people that have them and/or are making gil from the sale of said minions. And with easier access to them they lose income.

We all ready get stuck running Alwaysreap 10000 times for armor, why is everyone so eager and gleeful to repeat this process for a minion. Half the reason I don't bother with it is they serve no purpose, and require me to run the same dungeon repeatedly for no reward.

And tbh who the hell didn't see this coming with a full mini game solely involving minions?