Or just needs to be less complicated overall... Strange bonuses in place at various tiers from rank 1 to rank 24, and then different mobs giving different SP with no clear reasoning behind the decisions...

I miss the EM=100 formula from FFXI...

Though there seems to be a very vocal section of the FFXIV community that is against anything and everything that was a staple in FFXI being implemented in FFXIV.