Quote Originally Posted by Teakwood View Post
In theory, because dev resources are limited and this would take away from other stuff that might be more important.

In practise, because haters gonna hate. (Also a legitimate in my view desire to not see people walking around with Ifrit weapons unless they've done the difficult fight, which would be solved by multiple loot pools based on chosen difficulty.)
The dev resources point is valid.
The OP pointed out the ez fights shouldn't reward you with phat lootz.
Additionally you could scale it harder than original and get better % for drops?