To be honest, I'm not so concerned about myself not being able to take part in the Fates...

I was irked at the time when it happened (and then of course happened again and again as I went from one fate to the next, because of course the same high level player also followed he Fates)...

... but a day later, I'm over it... When it happens again I may get irked again, but it doesn't really happen that often that I have a day when I can't do any Fates...

I really hope that by the time I get this 2nd character to high levels again, there's something better for me to do to advance than to have to tediously go along from Fate to boring under-leveled unchallenging Fate just hoping by random chance to get a tine bit closer to advancing my gear just the tiniest bit.

The point I was trying to make here is that if there were something better for the high level characters to do, then this problem wouldn't exist for the low level characters either.