with all this new attention to crafting , wonder if they are gearing up towards crafting being relevant again. i'm a leather crafter 105, to be exact. for the longest time the only recipes to get to 110 included items that are no longer farmed ( sealord hides off bismark)
then they gave us these nice new recipes to bridghe the gap, and they were nice gear (ish) then one update later they added r/e gear that made them none relevant, so you still spent tons of gil on items you cant really sell to general population just for sake of getting to 109.