Kiote,
They are going to release new content in one year. Didn't you get the memo?

No seriously. Perhaps they are not trying to establish proper itemization until they have tweaked and adjusted every mechanic they are implementing. Think about it for a second now. They are releasing content like this to keep us busy while they work on the actual game. In fact, I would just classify this game as Final Fantasy 14 and 2.0 as FF14-2. I'm not even kidding.