I'm sorry, as a player who came from FFXI where gear swapping was almost insanely absurd to be good at your job, I find FFXIV to be excessively restrictive. Thing is, with how battle is built having gear swaps is meaningless anyway.

The biggest complaint I have about gear is that there tends to be rather poor stat allocation given the way jobs function at times requiring players to have a mix of multi-tier items/crafted times to make up some of the slack while sacrificing primary stat. Then there is the hard cap on gear that requires you to switch into higher ilvl items to meet min requirements then slip back to that gear once inside....simply because the stat allocation is stupid. Excessive SS, Acc, etc over a good even mix of stats along similar tiers. I would prefer there to be more endgame content giving better gear build options than there currently is...or for SE to pull their head out of you know where and stop making some of the slots have horrible options in all tiers of new gear.