IMO, it's more on content in 2.3 giving way too much mythology to allow players to gear up, especially with the introduction of hunts (as if it wasn't bad enough that you could exchange 20 allied seals for a myth piece) than current content giving too few soldierly.

I mean if you look at it from certain perspectives
-It takes longer to gear up with weathered equipments because their prices are unchanged. However, back in 2.3 I could gear up my main and alt classes in a matter of 2 days with how saturated mythology tomes were. And even as far as gearing up is concerned, there's no loot lock out in ST now (which drops ilvl100)