There's no sort of special abilities, effects, or interesting aspects about the gear in this game.

It's like STR+5, VIT+5, etc. one of the main statistics. Even from launch at XI they had gear that wasn't like everything else.

and you know what? Square-Enix had 3 years to add this in a game that isn't even new. 50+% of the content in this game was already in 1.0 and yet they still cannot add in features that games had at their launch many, many, many years ago.

So, why?