Quote Originally Posted by BigCheez View Post
I think having tome/savage gear be the only BiS gear is an intentional decision to avoid players having a laundry list of hoops to jump through to get their gear. IDK what the best solution is but gearing in FFXIV is so boring that removing stats from gear entirely would be preferable over the current system.
Pretty sure it's to deliberately slow gear progression and optimise subscription retention for as long as possible.