Thankfully, YoshiP said he's looking into it - They got it to work in 1.23, it can work now. Just like in XI, it started out slow, just reducing cooldown timers or boosting damage or increasing duration (basically further enhancing traits) then they got crazy with adding weaponskills/occasionally attacks/drain etc. So adding some ilvl appropriate gear with better stats to "abandoned" content would be pretty nice, since let's face it, despite the route of obsoleting things after every major patch, new people will still end up going through old content because for example your relic weapon still requires content that was obsoleted even during 1.x's life span.