Agreed with OP's points.

Related ideas I've had for making it easier to gear alt jobs:

- After you spend XXX tomes on a piece of gear for a particular job, buying the same piece of gear for any other job should be cheaper. For example, if you buy the Lunar Envoy's Ring of Aiming for 375 tomes, it should not cost you 375 tomes to buy the Lunar Envoy's Ring of [Other Jobs]. How much cheaper is up for discussion, but giving a price break for alt gear would 100% make this process easier.

- Same with spending 4-8 books on a piece of raid gear. If you buy the Abyssos Ring of Aiming for 4 books, it should not cost you 4 books for the Abyssos Ring of [Other Jobs]. This is especially true for the weapon/chest - IMO if they kept the initial price at 8 books, but reduced the price of buying further weapons/chests to 2 books/piece, it would really incentivize continuing to do weekly reclears, even as a PF-er.

- If they are going to continue releasing Criterion Dungeons 8 weeks after Savage (which I think is perfect timing), they could give a weekly reward for doing them, which earns you tome gear upgrades. The exact reward would be up for discussion but I'd suggest something like "3 weeks of criterion normal = 1 upgrade, or 1 week of criterion savage = 1 upgrade".

Speaking of PF players though:

I 100% agree with anyone who complains about the difficulty of gearing alt jobs in this game, but it should really be kept in mind that the situation is far worse for people who do their raiding in PF, rather than in statics. Sure static players might be frustrated with the situation too, but at least you are getting some fairly equitable amount of gear. The amount of time and effort PF players need to go through to get any gear at all is already ridiculous, even without considering alt jobs. The gearing system should be somehow tweaked so that people on PF can't get so lucky/unlucky depending on loot rolls. I have no idea what this solution would be, though.