I think in any MMO that is going to have lasting gameplay you need to have RNG and luck to make certain items extremely valuable.

Some people are coming from WoW saying everything in FF14 should also be easy to acquire but WoW simplicity has not been successful in any game besides WoW.

When other games copy the WoW method of crafting and acquiring end game gear, their playerbase plows through the content, finshes much of it and gets bored with the game.

Then they go on to a different game to ruin with their "standard tastes", untill WoW comes out with their next expansion for WoW players to plow through.