What would you add / change to the FATE system?

[Vespar]

Here's what I would add:
Random gear & food item rewards that mesh with the level of the fate. If its a level 30 fate, give it possible lvl 30 gear drops.
The gear or food, etc doesnt have to drop EVERY TIME, but it should have a decent potential of dropping. (kind of how the old lvl 1-50 leves sometimes gave a gear reward)

I'd also love to see them add the "riding maps" as a completion reward for completing a certain amount of Fates in a zone so that folks have other options beyond Hunts/Carnivale to get those.

What I would remove:
Not much, I would just rescale the lesser BOSS FATES so that they can be done by 1-3 players if there's not enough people around. Some of the lesser boss fights are impossible to do with 1-2 people and often they never get done anymore because of it, I'm referring to: The Eyes Have It, Svara, etc.
I'm not referring to Odin/Behemoth, etc. But those could also use a revamp in scale just not to the same degree so as not to cheapen them.

[EVA-Souls]

Increase the frequency that fate chains spawn, especially the final boss ones.

Implement a gemstone system for older content but don't have the reward cost be too high. Incentivize older players to go back and play with newer players.

Increase the level sync limit

Have underwater fates (that might be dumb but it sounds cool)

[SamSmoot]

Stop the timer as long as players are doing the fate content. I end up passing on many of them because the remaining time is too short
It's also very frustrating when one times out before you complete it.

[SamSmoot]

1. Auto sync when you target a FATE mob. So many times, I try to join one, and end up mashing keys to no effect because I forgot to sync.