We need more ways to make gold in this game.

[Catharsis]

You mentioned one of the Basic Problems yourself;

The standard of "Quickly" I'm using is a comparative one to going out naked and chopping down 5000 random shards to vendor to the nearest NPC for your repair bill. Since you fail to provide any solutions or alternatives to get GC Seals faster than that (which would probably be faster than waiting around for 44 fates to happen), I'm just going to assume you don't actually have a solution and are just carrying on about this because you can't deal with being wrong about the "Repair it yourself" option being completely uneconomical.

Frankly, we'll never agree on this issue because we have entirely different ideas of what constitutes fun, tedium, or a good game. You think that having people farm for 8 hours between repairs or limiting their activity to their daily pittance of leves (which require grinding themselves) is a good decision, and I don't.