For players like you, what do you enjoy? If the only thing you enjoy is endgame gear rewards, and everything else is meaningless, you're not playing the right game. I highly recommend that if that is the case, you do unsub and either play another MMORPG that has years of established content for you to indulge, or you just move on. I'm being serious on that btw.
Well yeah, I said quite clearly that I'm getting more enjoyment out of other games, way to go there Sherlock. It's not about end game rewards at all, I'd be doing coil if that was the case. If you're white-knighting the game then good for you!. But, It's about having things to do in game that aren't needlessly tedious, and maybe, just maybe, bring the community together rather than splitting it in two.

Are you somehow trying to suggest that at the current point in time, we're not playing the dregs of the content from 2.2 and 2.28 until the next patch?

I've been playing since release. My options at the moment until 2.3 comes out:
- Animus, I've been doing this, but running Expert roulette every day is getting old. FATE farming: No thanks, re-hashed old content. Myth farming: No thanks, re-hashed old content.
- Coil2, finding a static again, probably making minimal progress, and having the static fall apart. For what? Gear to run more coil with: No thanks, not worth it.
- Fight the RNG of bad DF groups in Moogle EX: No, thanks.
- Grind boring beast quests for my remaining 2 tribes: No, thanks.
- I've been crafting/gathering since release and don't need the money: No, thanks.

Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed just about every aspect of the game over the past 10 months, more so than any other MMO in the last few years. It's just it's all very old and tired at this point.