People actually don't need to think before they act as it's a plenty reasonable thing to do. In every game, we call it progression. I mean all RPG games pretty much follow the same route of there will always be better gear in the future content, following that pattern and your statement, you might as well just never level anything because there will always better gear in the future.

The only reason we can have the mentality of 'ignore current gear' is because we have the DMM version to thank for that. I'm sure as heck they didn't choose to ignore leveling SR gear on the first week.

Regardless, I have all this unneeded gear and it's either sell for gems or use on something and I sure as heck not selling my enhance material for gems. I can only hoard so much.