This is really one of the alternate progression players have been screaming for and what was originally promised by Yoshi-P. He promised multiple ways to upgrade your ilvl gear and weapons iirc. Then when everyone found out it was only upgradable from coil, they were like um, wtf. But now we have multiple ways as it was intended. It's unfortunate that it is creating a lack of players for other content, but that will pass, likely sooner then later. Sense it is really easy to get a lot of the gear people have been waiting for. My only concern is later once most people have what they need, will it become like fates, and will the S class's be impossible to beat like Gorgi is over at North Thanalan? Well I kind of take that back, because if you want to beat that fate I believe you could probably shout and/or PF and get enough people to kill it. As long as they keep feeding new gear into notes NPC, people will still be around to do the hunts.