Matria is needed?

[Undeadfire]

There are far more expensive things that people can be saving up for. The biggest and most obvious of these would be that we've all but had Ishgard housing confirmed.

Still isn't coming for a long time and gil isn't hard to farm, this point is mute.

Your perspective is defined from a raider perspective, and that's fine. But it's also important to be aware that there are people in this game who have different end game goals from you. Yours is not the only correct point of view for how the game should be played, especially when we're talking about casual content.

Bro point is gil is very useless without the raiding support, there's no where else to use it for than make a bigger sum, or buy a house (Only 1 time). SE keeps making things easier to farm and players build communities offering such a wide range of accessibility, however nope got to make excuses not to do it. Materias are ultra ultra cheap during the dead patches, they only get expensive during a new Savage raid release. There's absolutely no way to dodge this outcome, it's lazy or do it.