My only beef with this grindy leveling is that it completely destroys the market for materials. I don't even know why I bother to mine anymore. I gathered about 16 stacks of mythril ore leveling from 31 to 36. So did everybody else on my server. Which results in prices of about 20gil or 140 for HQ. Some items are even worse off and sell for 2gil.

At this point mining is completely worthless other than to supplement your own craft but you could do that just as cheaply from the market with the amount of repair costs you have if you update your gear regularly.