Not being able to buy single items from a stack on the marketward.

[Jinko]

This was raised on the beta forums before they were locked and then later closed, so I would like to re-raise this point as I feel it is important to the economy in FFXIV.

As of phase 4 we were unable to buy single items from the MW if the seller had sold them as a stack.
In 1.0 it was possible to do this and in my opinion this is a step back in terms of functionality and ease of use.
A lot of people were complaining about this in /shout /say and /linkshell chat because it restricted their plans to level crafting classes and make items in general.

A response from the dev team would be appreciated as to why they took this approach and whether they have any plan to change it.