I think the best thing they can do is to ease the gear sync so that your stats are a smidge higher when sync'd down then how they currently are atm. Kinda like how when u do so for FATEs you're not usually sync'ed down to the exact level of the FATE, you're actually a few levels higher, if they could do that with the gear sync 'ing so that they can give u a little ilvl bump that way, that would probably make it (feel) like less of a slog.

Aside from an adjustment that is equally as unobtrusive as would be to their Dev schedule (not even sure how feasible it is) I wouldn't expect the Devs to adjust the system too much, as the upsides for how it currently is do outweigh the downsides in their view, I imagine.