What I miss about 2.0 gear progression, was the fact that the vendor sold gear at the same ilvl of what dropped in coil. As my static progressed through coil, I was able to fill in the gaps with Myth gear. Now, you have to get Sands and Oils just to get the gear up to the same level as what drops in coil. While that's not much of an issue anymore, Sands and Oils used to be gated behind T7 and T8 kills. I suppose this gives players incentive to do coil, but we never had an issues with people choosing not to raid in 2.0 when the vendors offered same-level gear.

I guess what I'm trying to say, is that I hope vendors in 2.4 sell i130 gear, instead of i120 gear. While I'm almost certain that they'll make vendor gear 10 ilvls lower than coil gear again, it still doesn't make it any less disappointing.