Point in gearing up?

[Iscah]

If previous expansions are any indication i530 gear won't be outclassed till the level 85 dungeon gear. A full set of i530 gear will get you half-way through the expansion.

I don't feel like that's enough of a reason in itself to put the effort into gearing up now. It's just doing work now so you can save it later, and the later option is easier.

If you're playing the game because you want to, and essentially getting revelation times as a byproduct of gameplay, of course you're going to spend them to gear up. But if you don't actually need it for high-level gameplay now, there's no need to put effort in just to earn the Cryptlurker gear when you'll be fine going into Endwalker in a mix of Paglth'an/Edenmete/Type-55/Crystarium gear and updating with free MSQ and dungeon gear as you go.

There's very little in the Crypt sets that feels worth getting, glamour-wise, and I'd rather put my gameplay effort into other things.