What kind of bonus are we talking about, here? Purposefully failing leves is the ONLY (I repeat, ONLY) way for a static party to maintain the same set of levequests and thus maintain the very linking bonus the system was built to use. At the cost of a gil reward and faction points, you obtain the ability to SP more efficiently with the same group of people. That is a fair trade, and a choice we should be allowed to make.

The static party I run with is the first activity in this game that really made me want to play it, and one of the only reasons I haven't given up on FFXIV.

Is the DevTeam truly prepared to offer a Leve-Completion bonus that rivals the benefits of being able to ensure that your party has the ability to sync their sets and grind at a bearable pace? It would take quite a bit of benefit to make my group give up the ability to sync our sets, and not having the ability to (if that option were never on the table) would have quite a negative affect on the social fabric of statics like us.