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

[TakumiHarada]

So you want Criterion to be item level synced so that gear is even more useless than it currently is? Do I understand that right?

The only time the gear is useful is this time's Chaotic gear for FRU, which btw is extremely marginal anyway.
There was literally no point getting the Criterion gear for "BiS" purposes back in EW. Stop gaslighting.