Was this quest fundamental? I don't remenber acquiring such spell.
Any way, you are not looking at this at the rigth perspective, neither was the programmer, really. Altougth its truth that with time, technology gets better, religion, on the other side, gets "worse". You know, most of the religions from the past are now death, and we have no idea what their deity did, or how could them be pleased, or invoked.
If we follow this logic, army power got better(like they actually did on FF2, really, with all that plying machine and stuff), but spell were than weaker, because traditions were forgotten.
"Hardware design isn’t about making the most powerful thing you can.
Today most hardware design is left to other companies, but when you make hardware without taking into account the needs of the eventual software developers, you end up with bloated hardware full of pointless excess. From the outset one must consider design from both a hardware and software perspective."
Gunpei Yoko
