Quote Originally Posted by FoxyAreku View Post
There's not even enough secondary stats for this to be a thing honestly.
You misunderstand what horizontal progression in FFXI was. Your choices weren't VIT+INT+minor stats vs VIT+INT+other minor stats. It was HP+INT vs cast speed vs magic damage vs MP. When new content was introduced you didn't replace everything, you just had a few pieces that you needed for a job, maybe a couple more if you hadn't got all the previous gear.

Instead of content lasting 3-6 months then being obsolete, it lasted a few years. You had a much larger variety of end game content.