And you blame SE for implementing Hunts?

[Spellbinder]

Yep, game is dead. I mean never before in FFXIV: ARR we were handed top-tier gear just for grinding stuff like Allagan Tomestones...

I'm not sure if you're being serious (One can never be certain when reading text on the internet, so forgive me if I've misread you). Do you recall in patch 2.0 and 2.1 when Allagan tomestones of Mythology gave us item level 90 gear, which was equivalent to the item level 90 gear from the Binding Coil of Bahamut?

At that time, players were, as you put it, "handed top-tier gear for just grinding out Allagan tomestones."

Just my opinion, but the introduction of the Hunt is merely taking us back to the balance of 2.1.

There was top item level gear found in the coil, and there was top item level gear found outside the coil. If you wanted BiS, you needed a combination of both. I didn't see any of this complaining when casual players could have top level gear then (although it required lots of grinding, like it does for the Hunt), so why is the world coming to an end now?