The exploratory missions will be aetherial(pink) gear. Yes, it will be i210 but I absolutely don't see it replacing your Alex gear.

Sure it'll most likely be better than upgraded law gear and 'maybe' eso gear, but it's prime purpose is to provide a source of tier V materia and that's it

Also no I don't think eso should be uncapped. If they were we wouldn't have any tomestone on a weekly cap and that would be going completely against how the game has been designed since the beginning.

We need some form of tomestones on a weekly cap or else everyone will be full eso for all their jobs and thats not good for the game IMO. It's an mmo and a business, if there isn't a reason to play each week then why stay subbed?