new crafted gear useless for raid and so is materia V?

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so just wondering about the thought process that SE decided to delay, but eventually when we get the crafted gear its useless for Savage/Progression, as well as the dificulty to obtain Level V Materia.

if I look at the past, this was the trend. when i was in odin server, only few people could aford to get the best crafted gear early and then penta Meld it with Materia IV. those people were either gill buyers or those who sell runs. one guy in particular controled all server sales in Odin, if he decided to penta meld a new item, the Materia Prices for IV would go up like crazy. a single person would affect the macrket so much.

i guess in 3.0, Square-Enix was trying to avoid Gil Buyers / Sell runners from affecting and controling marckets by making new crafted gear worthless for progression and making matria V not easy available for them to penta meld them?

or is it just all about lucrezia and those high end raiders, they dont want them to complete savage in a few days using that gear?

while that idea runs into my mind, i feel that, this is also not the optimal solution to the origional problem. what do u guys think? i would not mind to have the old situation back, if we can have usefulll crafted stuff for progression and easy available Materia V . i dont really care about gill buyers or sell runners, we can't stop them , they are part of the game and we can't get rid of them anyway.