Quote Originally Posted by Kallivis View Post
The purpose of them (and the point of most roleplaying games in general) is to customize your character as you see fit, so not everybody is a carbon copy of one another. It's not fun to see every single person with the exact same gear and mounts.
Neither is it fun to see people wearing garbage and being effective, or having a turtle and running the speed of a chocobo.

You can scale content and make it biased - as WoW did with its mounts. Even though there are "stats" there is still a huge variety of mounts used at max level. Customization != everything has to be the same.