Why no low-level nms?

[Alhanelem]

I just started recently and one of my favorite aspects of FFXI was nm hunting. I noticed this game -does- have a good number of NMs, but it seems like the lowest level NM is in the upper 30's.

I had a lot of fun hunting for lower-level NMs in FFXI on my low level jobs. Why can't we have some in this game?

That's a low level NM.

lv 1-20 go by too fast for hunting NMs for gear for them to be worthwhile. There are no level caps in the game so no reason to keep low level gear once you're done with it.

That being said I'm sure 2.0 will have more NMs and that this is just something they're treating as low priority for the current client.