Why does it seem you need a hunting retainer to get skins at a decent rate?

[Losara]

Can only suggest buying them off the market board instead. Hunting mobs to get skins doesn't seem to be a good use of time when you can make gil faster doing other things and then buying them off the market board.

The drop rate is probably low for the sake of economy balance or to stop bots from getting rich quicker.

[KageTokage]

The drop rate is probably low for the sake of economy balance or to stop bots from getting rich quicker.

I feel like there are a ton of other things they would've changed by now if they thought the economy or bots were a major issue (IE, removing gil drops from ARR dungeons so the gil farm bots no longer have easy access to an infinite source of income).