At least this way the people who do the hard "end game" contents have better/equal rewards. There are people who never beat turn 5 and some who never cleared titan x yet they have very high item level because of the hunt which is not skill dependent it's mostly time dependent and that's fine.
Since SE doesn't really wanna do a REAL ADJUSTMENT to the hunt, how about making both sand & oil of time drops from t6-t9?