I'm ok with people starting at 1 if they want to. Doesn't bother me. Honestly it just seems like a convenient excuse for them to not have to make job quests starting from 10, and not have to design weapons below 50/60 multiplied by the amount of new jobs. Notice RDM has no weapons below 49 except a bunch of joke weapons at level 1. I mean I guess they could just copy and paste the exact weapon 30 times and distribute the stats properly or implement a scaling weapon that syncs up (like heirlooms in wow) but that would sort of take the fun out of collecting gear. For the devs, I feel like them starting a job at 50 or 60 allows gear they had to make anyway sync down, saving them a lot of work.

People have been asking for a sort of "New Game+" function for a while now, and doesn't seem like anything has happened.