Can Square Enix stop gate-keeping mid-core contents behind Savage ILvl on release?

[TakumiHarada]

If the developers makes it possible to clear criterion with crafted gear, and players set the requirement to 15 item levels above that, it's not SE's fault.

If SE were to lower the minimum item level, the content would become too easy for those with level-cap gear (it already is). Lowering the level cap would only punish players with BiS gear, which makes no sense.

SE's real mistake here is not putting level-cap gear in normal Alliance Raids.

No one's punishing people "BiS gear". What??? (laugh-cry emoji)
If giving people without BiS a huge disadvantage on release (I don't know how many times I need to emphasise this) without BiS gear is how you "don't punish" them I don't know what to say.
(Edit: I edited out the "locking people out")

Lock the new Exploration island in 7.25 behind 760 and 790 in the 7.45 expansion then.
It's "easy enough" and only people with BiS should be allowed in the 48-person savage raid amiright?