So make NMs drop random useless drops so people have a tale of how they came across epic trash items during their journey?

Having such archaic systems in place may satisfy the FFXI nostalgia for some people but for the people SE is targeting it won't.

All MMOs are about time sinks but this is not something this generation of gamers will find "fun" by any means. People are forgetting that FFXI never reached 1 million subs because of the shift of the genre. Low level items should always be easy and accessible to obtain without such time consuming methods. Endgame should be where the time sinks come into place.