@ OP whine more on WoW please. Final Fantasy is not known for catering to infants. Gear Restrictions were in XI and now in XIV. both make/made perfect sense. If you dont wanna be a gimp buy/craft new gear. If you hate manually equipping gear stop being lazy and take 3mins out of your ever so busy day and make a macro like the smart people do .... macro swap or no swap ftw! haha...

sorry for the blunt rude way of saying that but ... omg whine more? gets annoying i do believe this game is rated T not E and posts like the OP's seem like a 10yr old wrote it just whining that their gear is now unusable... BTW a 18 dagger on a 15 gla means your a gimp and always has lol wear optimal get the full effect its always been more beneficial even since CE launch...