Please let us buy gil since it's not pay to win.

[Vstarstruck]

That's a nice theory, but I've seen how silly the prices have gotten on servers for things as simple as low level materials that are easier to gather, or even mid-30s greens (I checked a few minutes ago since I'm currently subbed to that game as well, and the price for a level 40 green plate piece was like 400g),

alimdia is correct, and also correct with the counter to this. There is some low level stuff that is simply rare so people pay a lot of gil for it, like emperor hairpin in ffxi (only that had 2 reasons for being a lot there, reason 1 it was rare plus it was still used at level 75, max level. I do not know when it got phased out exactly but ya) Low level item does not always mean cheaper.

FFXIV even does this, ever notice the effect SB had on effervesent water? It went though the roof because SB synths go though it like... water? It is crazy.

The problem with sub tokens in this game has a few problems though. 1. MB is a mess, and needing to spam undercut, 2. a lot of people have gil hoarded esp career crafters. So if sub tokens where made, hyperinflation is bound to happen because that horded gil will be circulated. I am not sure if this is an exact problem, but it runs into the next reason. 3. Housing. the shortage of housing people still try resell and hoard them under FC name, the problem may be less now, but if you suddenly have these sub tokens, I do fear insane bidding prices on reddit for second hand housing.

So I would like to see the tokens in this game, so gil is more circulated but, FFXIV's economy just has too many problems atm.

I find the term pw2 odd. I mean... what are you winning really? PvP is the only competitive game mode, and its gear is standardized.
gil in FF14 is largely worthless unless you want to buy a house.

If you really do not understand, why not read some posts explaining it? Retainers are P2W, just because you do not see it as "competitive" does not change the fact it is P2W. You are paying real money for an advantage, it is problematic people can't see this or understand. That advantage goes to career crafters and people that want to focus on making gil in the game, no matter how worthless it is to you, some people like seeing 2 + gil cap retainers.

You pay real money for more sale slots at once, 40 vs 180, 40 vs 200, 320 vs 1600, etc, the difference of paying extra and sub base is a big difference, maybe even more so then selling "PvP" potions because this ant no "5%" increase in damage, this is a 500% increase.