Variance in player skill is hurting FFXIV's itemization design.

[Granyala]

You do know hunts are still a thing right?

Never cared about them.
Found them to be as ridiculously boring as Diadem.

I do chuckle about chat outrage when s/o pulls early though.

I am not against catch up gear. I am against catch up gear while the raid tier is current.

If you can't manage to get 4 bosses on farmstatus after 3 MONTHS, it is NOT the casuals problem and you probably need the Lore 240s in order to down the remaining bosses at all.

If you downed the bosses and don't get the loot, the problem is not the item level, the problem is retarded loot RNG.
I'd expect my raid of 8 people to be decently geared after raiding a place for 3 months.

BTW: if it were up to me, Mythic and Savage rewards would be unique cosmetic stuff only in order to curb the power creep a bit.