The way things are with Ifrit + Moogle and their drop system in addition to their time sink is SE's way of making content "last" because they can't create any lasting content while working on infrastructure issues that need to be addressed asap.

It's a really poor and sad excuse, the game shouldn't have launched when it did, QA team should have done their job, scratch that, the QA team SHOULD DO their job, actually listening to player feedback more then "Oh, yea we're giving you optical mouse in 2010, thanks for your feedback!" during the beta phase, the list goes on.

Personally, with the state of the game and how frustrating it's to play the game, it's better to allow us to blow on through content then to piss off loyal consumers that have stuck with it for this long. Why piss them off even further? I don't understand it, if we leave, we leave, the game is free (not for long though, but it doesn't seem even Yoshida cares if you leave after it does go to subscription mode.)