I'm thinking: "If it's not broken don't fix it" here.

The point to the weekly time gate and the tome cap is to make sure the hardcore players like OP don't max out their gear in the first week and burn the whole patch content until the next patch. At some point it may be important to get involved in the community. Crafting comes to mind but it's not as important as it should be in FF14.

There will always be limited peanut butter in the peanut butter cup. One has to spread it.