Been running Ridorana Lighthouse the whole week and...

[BillyKaplan]

I quite frequently saw players horribly under-geared using accessories to bypass the min item level

You know what would help with that? Being able to roll Need on a healer piece that dropped in that instance instead of losing it to a MNK which is what happens right now.
As for your particular example with accessories, I notice your post is well over a year old. Since then 61+ accessories became role-locked so people can't do that anymore.

that didn't know how to play their alt class

I'll let you in on a secret. Some people don't know how to play their mains.