So what is the point of Pink Bean?

IMO The Timeless pendant originally had to have been either a drop, or part of a quest, and there had to have been some way to scroll it with special "Pink Bean's". It always seemed weird to me that there was essentially no bonus outside of the bosses drops, especially when the Windia group killed it legitimately, and the quest just turned out to be a repeatable quest to acquire a new marble. Maybe it was never implemented at the time simply because they knew it would be ages before anyone killed it? Maybe they decided it would just exist as a 'benchmark' boss with no substantial gear? The whole rocks of time thing was basically useless simply because in the year and a half that timeless weapons would have been useful, not a single rock was dropped.

I agree with this reasoning. Just imagine if the timeless pendant was released now though. Iirc it's stats were like level 140 with base stats after leveling surpassing HTP, with slots for level 14 tier potential stats and accessory scrolling. I would love a 3 line one of those...