I don't see the grand picture. Help me understand.

[lamerider]

i don't see why crafted gear shouldn't be better ( or just equal with) than raid gear.
people mainly doing raid for items.
and if we can craft those items , doing raids can be purely for fun.
i assume really lots of ppl doing raids while they don't want to do , but they do it because they want ( need ) items.
if crafted gear has same quality with raid gear, people can do raid only for challenging , achievement , or fun such.
why? i really don't understand why raid gear should be better than crafted gears? why?

If crafted gear is better or equal to raid gear, why raid?
Sit in town, craft better gear, then don't raid because you have the best gear? Um.. k.

if you are doing raid for items , you are happy because you can craft it without any worry about time spending or shitty teammate annoyance ,
if you are doing raid for fun you are still happy , because you can challenge it with people with same purpose ( not with people those i don't care at all if i can have items )
why it shouldn't be?
why?
(yea if you want something prove you've beaten hard content that can be shown everyone , it should be implemented i think though ,
but i can't understand why it must be world's best gear.
in FF V , if you beat Omega , you'll get just tiny medal thing.
but isn't it enough for proving you've bested hardest enemy is it ?)