Folks on this forum have asked for this to change for a long time now..sadly it never does. There is always a reason given, in the latest one Yoshida said something about if they changed it then it wouldn't be FFXIV anymore..

I would not mind a change. I rather they remove the ilvl if anything, like 1.x (With our stats back..haha yea right..)...and that way there is more horizontal choices mixed with vertical. OP, I just feel that this is a dev team or the producer..whoever it is, but they cannot do this. They cannot figure out how to do something different without it "breaking the game" or any thing like that...I kinda gave up hoping we will see anything different.