The alternative to lockouts is annoyingly low drop rates (see Levi Mirrors) and the hardcores will still grind that out in a month (Levi EX PFs have dropped dramatically lately). We certainly can use more endgame content but take a look at everything else they're churning out. If they sidelined things like Frontlines and Housing improvements/Personal Housing and the upcoming Golden Saucer they could certainly churn out more endgame raids and even more open world content. Pull resources from the DX11 release team or from the expansion pack team perhaps? Already enough complaining on the forum about how long the DX11 client is taking and we'll probably see an increase in the "When's the expansion?" posts. I think they're steadily heading in the right direction, they just need to get all these major projects out of the way. Assuming Hunts will also award the UATs then 2.3 will give us three ways to get those and two ways to get Oils/Sands. By 2.38 we'll potentially have 3 ways depending on their timeline for adding them to CT2.