This game is amazing and has many fantastic things going for it. Almost everything in game is obtainable, and as a collector myself, I enjoy working towards having everything in game.

What some people cannot do, as they did not play at the time, is obtain older PvP mounts and items. What I believe that they should do is:
1. If you were top 100* in an older PvP season, ensure that you have a unique title for your hard work;
2. Make all the items obtainable after a period of time, via hard work in future PvP.

The game has massive problems with win-trading in PvP. This doesn't mean that some people didn't work hard, the ones that did not had to work extra hard. The rewards should instead exist for 100 wins in a game mode or 1000, and not top 100* in a season. There could be tokens you purchase and can sell, and then trade those tokens for any of the Feast mounts/items. This would give current PvP players a useful way to make gil. The tokens could even only drop from wins in ranked PvP. It would at least give all players an incentive to get in to ranked PvP.

People are activitely cheating to a massive degree across most parts of the game. People run bots to craft and gather whilst they go to work or sleep. This helped them cheat in Ishgard Restoration and in obtaining the mounts for many hours of that activity. People still win-trade in PvP today even though there are no real rewards. FF14 either needs to have a mechanism to delete accounts involved in that kind of behaviour and wipe them from leaderboards, or they need to make the rewards available to those that attempt to complete them in good faith via their own merits.