They should re release FFXI with 75 cap era. (waits for hate).
Until like literally 15 minutes ago, I thought I was the only one that cared about 75 cap. Then I found out Linear is doing the exact same thing on the exact same server and now this world feels a lot less empty.
They've made the game impossible for you to execute your plan pure-ly sadly. You get like 30x the exp now, like 30x the skillups per hour today compared to 2004-2009 75 cap era.
The only way to recreate that difficulty would be play monk and never use weapons or gear at all and lvl up that way, slowly killing mobs etc
But if there was a way to recreate 2008 in it's entirety I bet a lot of people would opt to do it for fun, like a lvl 75 cap server we could all visit for 3 months for free (server transfers) and do stuff together