A case of chronic gear imbalance

[Cordie]

… close-minded ''I'm right, you're wrong no matter what argument you say'' mindset. […]

Asking to put or keep others at a disadvantage because they are others is not much of an argument, much less is it fit for a thread prompting for a rectification of the current model.
I would, naturally, not expect any feedback from raiders, yet all I got was a nonsensical “grinding for-10ilvls is so freaking better than our i270” and the like. If anything, their RNG for loot could be improved in one way or another, but instead of asking for that in an appropriate thread they chose to “crash” another one, completely irrelevant to their own problem.

The game has been like that since 2.2 […]

Thus, it must stay like this, because.
And feedback must not be given, because.

EDIT: saw your update; you mention gearing up with tomes, but it is to a low ilvl, and through a casual grind, at most, as you pointed out. What I'm proposing is for more, on both counts.
For instance, mixing the tomestones with some weekly ex primals or PotD tokens, would be very close to an "enhanced" grindy part I'd like to see lead to i270 instead of i260.
Hope this clarifies my thoughts a bit.