The recipis have insane control requirements and I don't like spending tons of gil on overpriced gear that only 5-10% of the community on my server can make at any given time (yay monopoly). So I usually stick with tome gear unfortunately or whatever current raid gear is. I don't like farming tomes, its true, but usually I don't go out of my way to farm them anymore and I get capped before the end of the week at 450 tomes but with the 900 cap I don't usually reach it at my own pace but I still get more tomes per week with the amount of time I play.

If they made the cap 450 tomes for each class per week, that would still make people choose what class they want to gear up ultimately cause people like me will not be able to go cap 3-4 classes a week. With a 900 straight cap, I don't have to worry about what class I have to play on (especially for things like light farming)... I can choose what gear I need when I need it etc...

Here's the thing with the "alternative solution"... SE has stuck with the same trend of updates since 2.0 and at this point I really don't expect it to change. Even if we provided new solutions which have been suggested over the ages, that still requires them to make new gear sets per patch and they already said that takes alot out of development time. There is no Win/win situation here so they could just easily raise cap by 450 more tomes and be done with it.