I have no problem with fates. Bad players will be bad. It is mind numbing and so boring that I can only do it for like an hour before I want to tear my eyes out. Reducing fate spawns or reducing xp is not going to help players get better. There are red circles in fates too so just doing a dungeon isn't going to make you a master at dodging them. In addition the gear thing is just a player being lazy, even if they didn't do fates they may still have terrible gear. Ot you can be like me and get 4 drops through all the story modes on my GLD.