This game currently is too short sighted in keeping everyone happy by trying to make everybody relevant and outdating its gear with every new addition to force people into a carbon copied version of the same Tome Farming System...

Time to wake up FFXIV, you don't have to recreate the wheel here, your company made a great, albeit slow and less pretty version of the game you have now. While I'm not saying go back to farming NMs or camping Faf for 12+hrs just to not get claim and piss off your E.G. Shell, I am saying look at the systems that popularized the game (Nyzul, Neo-Dynamis, Salvage, Assaults, Campaign, Beseiged, Sea), the classes and how they interconnected and balanced one another, and start getting creative. Unless this game is designed to have only a 5 year run, stop trying so hard to be new that in actuality you're just being played out like every MMO before you.