A fine idea if there was actually any merit to dropping the subject, but really, it's a bind that needs a fix and nobody else is suggesting anything. And if the reasons are 'lore' and 'immersion', no part of the game should suffer for that.

Also, DF is the only thing keeping any content in the smaller servers playable, so even if some people don't like it, for FFXIV's setup it's a necessary evil.