Issues on GP

[Soylent]

I did indeed read the whole post a few times carefully and while your presumption would be the most desirable / logical one I'm affraid that alternative interpretation is possible as well:

"We will store the additional data like materia status" AND (at the same time) use it to "apply the equipment tham has most materia in it".

While I most centairly hope for the former after all the past experiences with SE I'm affraid they'd actually implement the latter - though I'd be more than glad proven wrong - maybe some additional clarificatoin from devs about this will be in place here ...

I'm pretty sure it means what he said it means

Addition of the below data to the gear set information saved

Materia status for each piece of equipment
*Amount, type, melding order

Which means it will distinguish items based on materia as well and will be able to tell a part 2 identical items one with materia and one without or 2 identical items with different materia

[HEC]

I'm pretty sure it means what he said it means

Based on what? And WHAT exactly does it mean actually??

The "key" sentence being "•Additional matching processes for the above information when changing gear sets" the quite (if most not most) "logical" way to read it would be as I've already described above - e.g. the (additional) gear item information saved (info above that sentence) will be used to perform the actions listed below the sentence (amongst others the unwanted "1.Equipment of the same type that has the most materia will be applied" action).