I would like the development team to take a good close look at the multiple threads here outlining your crafting community's utter disgust with the effects that the Synergy system has had on all of us...
Being able to level another craft to 100 will do nothing to restore the vitality of the crafting community... what needs to be done is to be able to push a craft PAST 100... Please, for all our sakes, stop giving synergy everything. I, like so many others have expressed whole-heartedly in these forums, find synergy to be monotonous and completely defeating of the "fun" associated with crafting... It's laggy and stressful and we have no desire whatsoever to level it; but alas, it seems ever more apparent that you, the development team, wish to force us all to level it in order to get anything out of our years and tireless efforts toward leveling our crafts to veteran.
From a personal standpoint I have lost many good friends in this game over the past couple of years due to the mismanagement of game balance, especially the addition of synergy. A great many of us do not like synergy, we don't find it fun at all, in fact, quite the contrary... I can't think of anything I'd rather do less than sit in front of a furnace feeding fewell endlessly for skill ups to use a craft I have already leveled.
Take a close look at your servers. Please note that there are a very small handful of synergists on each server making obscene amounts of gil selling synergy items that they have monopolized. This is not because synergy is difficult to level, or even because many people have not figured out how synergy works. It's because we detest it SO much that even the vast quantities of gil associated with it will not drive us to leveling it.

I have all but deleted my character due to my disappointments with the latest developments in FFXI... I've played for many, many years... I've noticed a large decline in player's interest lately due to unbalanced gameplay, lost many good friends in game that have become fed up with it all. Do not let this trend continue; please, tread lightly when making these decisions... Perhaps before increasing the skill allotments for crafts you should, first, address the catastrophe that has befallen said crafts... For all our sakes, please bring the fun back to your crafting system... Not just keep pushing us towards synergy... Ultimately, what you'll be doing is pushing us to ending our subscriptions.