Itemization in this Game is One-Dimensional

[KamikazeMan]

XIV is 3 years old. Gear and stats used to have much more variety and room for customization and they made the explicit design decision to dumb and simplify it all down. It's not something that will just get better in time. They remade the entire game and that was something they REMOVED on purpose.

Are you forgetting that a majority of that time was spent remaking XIV practically from the ground up? It's not like they were sitting around just working on content.