you have made literally every other piece of materia completely useless in the process.

the end-game stats on gear are simply a part of balance. they know people just spend their days min-maxing everything as much as they can and so a lot of the time equipment is there not just to help you but to also impede you a bit so you remain in line with everyone else.

they don't want to end up in another situation where ninja tanks were a thing that existed in 11.