Something that's always annoyed me is how item level sync nulls materia. I guess it wasn't as much of an issue before when grade 5 was the norm and ~12 stat was the average you got per.

But now grade 6 is the norm and we can lose hundreds of stats just by being synched down even if our actual level hasn't dropped.

I get why if actual level is dropped you'd want to null materia, but would it be possible to set it up so that alone is the case?