I never got the 75 crowd either, but to each his own! The 75 today is generally what the lv85 cap vs the mobs would have been, possibly even 90, dare say 95? Then you factor in that back then you would not hit over 1k often on a ws.... and today you can do upwards of 6k+ from what im told... not even the same game, not even a fraction. Plus new food, amazing food actually for what we had back then "pizza" or even earlier just a mithkabob or hedgehog pie. your looking at just an absurd amount of acc/attack more, stuff that even then would have felt to trivialize fights. Then you add in the fact that you have cheers, and access to perfect gear that only 1-3 ppl per SERVER had. Just seems silly to me, but I can understand the appeal to "relive the old days", I just wish we could do it by the standards of those days.
I had always dreamed SE would have made a 75 server with pre aby environment. Literally everything the same, even to the stupid 72 hr tiamat pops, daily HNM grind and bot war. Back when a Dring ment you controlled an entire ls of 30 for your own benefit. When a relic required 6 months of 36 ppl spamming you currency for your 1% ***drop at thf hands which still required a 30m (at 50k/hr farming speed) investment for the THF knife or none would inv you, etc. Challenges, thats what new ffxi is missing, this dyna D is laughable easy, one shot mobs on cor is like wtf.