Personally I agree with Randnum.
My biggest problem with crafting is that is too cumbersome after 60 for any one craft let alone additional ones. Crafting as a whole is too restrictive even and especially with the crafting key items. Increasing the level cap without fundamentally address base functionality is just not going to excite people to want to bother getting stuff above 60 in multiple crafts if they havent already.
For example, Synergy was supposed to be able to enhance pre-existing Synthesis items beyond what they are but is very limited to which sets can be enhanced and even within the same set only certain evolith can be etched onto each piece. Even more why arent there more recipes that can create basic 76+ general gear using synthesis only especially if synergy is truly supposed to supplement and not replace synthesis?
Key items is another example, the ones where you can enchant ingots but only a select few ingots. When I first started leveling smithing I was thinking " would be cool to make enchanted armor with say protect 1 for low level non mage gamers to help them out through earlier job levels but this isnt oblivion as I soon found out so that killed that thought. Still once you get an key item, why limit it to only a select few ingots, cloths, etc when u spend so much time leveling up crafting to create more powerful items for later levels, only to not be able to enhance it without synergy?
As mentioned what gear can you make past 75 without synergy? Even the stuff u can make that is level 75 the drop rates for ingredients is so horrible that it hardly make it worth going after, especially when you factor in the rarity of skill at that point despite the recipe being higher than your actual skill and even when you do it is rarely higher than a 0.3?
People arent stupid because they dont like their time monopolized in this way by SE and wont "go along to get along" just for a cosmetic 3 digit number next to a craft. Not everybody is that vain. I'm not and neither is Randnum. What is stupid is not seeking to understand before passing judgment.