People will still use 270 STR accessoires after 4.05 Good Job square enix.

[Reynhart]

Choosing between the various flavours like Tenacity, Crit, Det, Direct Hit, or SS for smaller DPS differences is better than MAIN STAT or go home.

But it was never really that way. In ARR, raid gear were used because crafted gear were released much later, so no melds.
In Gordias, you still focused on overmelding STR.
At Midas and beyond, calculation was changed, so you melded STR on raid drops, and now, you still meld STR on raid drops.

And even with secondary stats, apart from melding accuraty to hit the cap (which I'm sure very few people actually liked), you still melded the stat with highest weight possible.