The replicas are a good step, but really, they need to remove restrictions on gear. Looking at the leveling gear from 1-30ish, it was mostly unlocked for all jobs to use
Hell, even the crafting gear used to be open for all jobs. I'm not even sure why they added the dye-able versions of crafter gear only to keep it locked to that specific job anyway.
At least make replicas of those, too?

If the system is too far gone already, stick to one distribution method instead of having it all over the place :c