Required Class/Rank failed - Can we have Optimal Rank and Favoured Class back?

[Oscillate_Wildly]

The aesthetics angle is easy to overcome: dated gear is still there and is not going to be deleted, and for now you can still craft them. The dev team just thinks we'll see the futility of still having it around ourselves and Materia it.

I'm keeping a lot of mine for the appeal they hold. Sure the stats are bonkers right now and useless but at least I'm equipped until I hit 50 again.
At the very least, if not rank, then I'd rather see favoured classes make a return and make it so equipping an item on any other class but favoured is just as good as being nude, whether it has materia or not. That's balanced to a degree.

Because I don't think that a level 2 marauder should be wearing level 48 skirts etc. Not effectively or anything. But as we can change classes so often making the bulk of crafted gear restricted to specific classes is frustrating. Necessary or not is a subjective opinion, that I'm sure we could agree. There are lots of frivolous requests from both sides and it is a visual interactive experience, you cannot blame a person for wanting to experience it a certain way for purely aesthetics. I suppose you could argue compromise was made with undyed gear, but since that too is also going out the window who knows. :/

I just hate being unable to equip certain pieces for fun unless they're dated even if I match level in that class while on another.
Oh well.