It's not the RNG, its the implementation of the system

[Jeeqbit]

When it came to making a mythic weapon, there are multiple steps, but one of them is collecting 30,000 alexandrite, that don't have large drop rates by any means, so the amount seems daunting. However, not only can you run the content that these items drop from, you can also suppliment your farming by doing other tasks and buying them from players. You can craft, farm currency from dynamis to sell, etc. so there is always a steady growth towards your goal that can be accomplished multiple ways, and none of these ways were particularly easier than another. They all required effort.

Seems similar to gemstone vouchers. But I don't support that idea anyway because I want to do new content like Occult Crescent and copying gemstone vouchers wouldn't lend itself to that.

The issue is also that they tried something similar with tomestones and basically everyone caps those anyway by the content they do already, often through hunt trains if not through expert. So in effect, it was a handout.

it is yet another set of fates which is about the most boring and phone-it-in sort of content

Sorry that you think CEs are FATEs. I personally disagree.

you can only farm certain demimateria from certain parts of the zone, some of which like the SW corner, are far more limited on chances for demimateria than the others.

It would really help for it to just be 1 type of atma that you get from the entire zone. It would really solve the problems with this.

But you'll get them eventually and I think a lot of people's problem is actually with their own OCD issues with struggling to discard excessive Atma.

Have fates, but also have spawnable NMs, roaming NMs, Voidwalker NMs which require some hunting, etc. Locking the gear behind killing these NMs also would have been way better and more exciting than locking them behind a zone-specific currency.

We have FATEs and spawnable CEs. I don't know why they removed roaming hunts - probably because people ignored them in Bozja.

The complexity of spawning NMs didn't continue from Eureka because clearly it was unpopular and nobody except me hardly spoke positively about Eureka in Stormblood. Ultimately we are in this boat because SE listened to these forums and look where it got us - I hope everyone's happy with it since they asked for it to be dumbed down like this.

Looting gear was also a problem in Eureka. It was rare to get and really just an annoyance since you could do Eureka for years and not get it. A currency prevents those issues.