Vanity seems to be something for the super rich and endgame crafters and not for the majority of players. The requirements for most cool looking vanity items is so high that I still run around in Snow's level 1 robe..just not interested in grinding hours/days for one item.

This patch is a nothing more but a huge letdown and a new record for senseless grinding and time sink elements. Dying AF is insane speaking of the requirements, Choccobo levelling is bound to an FC, FC house and a bachelor master in Gardening and the Hunt is something that brought out the worst in people thanks to its design. And desynthesis in combination with the new tools for DOH and DOL is an insane grind feast that either takes months or you needs millions of GIL to proceed.

All the good things (Hildibrand was cool, story was cool, new dungeons are cool too and the amount of QOL additions was also cool) go under in the "grind till your head explodes" elements that came with Patch 2.3.