Alienation of Dedicated and Skilled players

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that part right there. the "crazy" thing that is being asked for would be for both.

And I addressed that in the very post you quoted. FFXIV doesn't have infinite resources. Implementing a redesign of this caliber would basically be the 4.0 expansion. Why would they prioritize the bulk of their budget to a small fraction of the community? They can't do something like this and then add features like the Aquapolis, Deep Dungeon or an actual good Diadem. And that still doesn't answer what purpose putting buffs/stat effects or whatever else on gear has. People will always gravitate towards the best. Case in point, the new Anima weapon lets you customize your stats. People come into MrHappy's stream daily and ask what stats to focus on. He tells them Crit/Det because that's the best allocate for a net DPS increase. So the customization features boils down not getting stuck with a crappy secondary stats.