With the interview, I only double down on my suggestion to take old raid currencies out of the game and make the items from them available for poetics. If they are competitive with the poetic gear for that expansion, then make it so you have to clear the raid series before you can buy them. Everything else is inferior to poetic gear and people only want it for glamour so it's a bit petty to care at this point.

For current raid tier, I suggest getting rid of individual drops for the gear slots and just simplify them to weapon tokens and armour tokens.