People seem to conveniently overlook that WoW originally had some pretty strict gating processes, and that bosses dropped I think 3 or 4 loots for a 40 man raid, and there was no Valor points back then. If you scale that to FF14's 8 man raids, that'd mean you kill a boss in Coil and it wouldn't even be guaranteed you'd get a piece of loot at all (because on average it's less than 1 when scaled down), and there would be no mstones at all. I'm sure progress in Coil will be greatly slowed down if you enforce those restrictions, but I don't think that'd make a better game.