I've defeated Ifrit well over 100 times and not once have I seen the lance drop. RNG drops are fine until a certain point, then it just makes me want to quit. Why waste the time on it? I occasionally try it now but I've basically been forced to move on with just the GC weapon. Hopefully I can get my full DL set so I'm not being 100% carried through the rest of the primals.

As for people who like to say "well it was worse in 1.x", well, maybe it was. However, we're not in 1.x anymore. 1.x got rebooted for a reason.