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Because the late-game is incredibly easier if you avoid leveling up in the early-game. Or worse, if you level up mid/late-game with bad equipment, your stats will suck. This mean that every time you level you have to make sure you have the right items equipped. This doesn't really matter in vanilla but it creates a lot of variance in higher difficulty settings. Also on topic of buffs duration, it's indeed annoying but unless you force Active ATB it's a necessary evil. If you just buff the duration, you can still artificially increase it even more by going in the menus with the Wait ATB option.

Remove the 50% increased Fire damage on Robe armor, shit's dumb yo. Make sure to remove the Charge! ability unless you want me to spank Ozma again . If you intend to balanced endgame around lvl 99, make it relatively easy to grind. And tbh, most changes LandonRay made in his hack, like removing the main stats from armor and removing to ability to absorb elements.