It wasn't funny back in 2012 when FF14 hackers were triggering market board purchases from other players to steal their money.
To be able to strip the inventory of live players throughout the map in 2020? That code base is fucked.
They reset everyone's strength and endurance to 0 too. Seems like something you should wait for a wipe to test, but what do I know. Instead of screwing literally every one over because of exploits, it would make a million times more sense to lower everyone down to some max value, like maximum 10 or something and leave everyone under that the hell alone. Probably a good way to remove demand for more servers though since it'll probably make some people quit for awhile.
I've been watching a fair number of streams for this and I'm seriously considering diving in after the next wipe. It's just a really interesting game concept that intrigues me despite not usually liking games with harsh failure penalties.