I thought it might be nice if they let you send retainers after specific items from content you've cleared, but have the venture cost more and/or take an enormous amount of time. Although I was thinking more in terms of vanity gear from low level dungeons rather than BiS gear.

I doubt SE would do anything nice for Coil people, they seem pretty happy with the routine they've got going with lockouts. And it seems like they just want to ignore hunts as much as possible and pretend nothing has changed with how players expect to get gear.