What will happen to dated items and dated material ?

[Orophin]

I like the recommendations of replacing the dated gear with relevant updated pieces.
Something along the lines of my Dated Leather Espadrilles would become "Leather Type" Espadrilles after conversion
But
I'm sure if they could do that they would have done it the first time around, no?

I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to make edits to the database to replace a dated item with a newer item its equivalent in level, but you run into the issue of the newer items having class/job and level requirements which the dated equipment didn't really have.