The loot formula is only as bad as the community using it. JP does left too right, leave after 1 item in DF/PF and it works there because they put in the effort to socially cast out people who are repeat offenders in their systems. We use statics with our own dedicated loot rules for this purpose.

Also counter-rant on your melee take - boo hoo, you have to do max melee for a variety of mechs on bosses with hitboxes the size of the sun. 40% of them not even having positional requirements from the few positionals you have left.

Sorry but Melee DPS in terms of fight design has like basically no weakness and Ranged jobs' range is a pitifully useless advantage. We can talk about it when they stop making arena-sized boss hitboxes.