You'll be better off getting with the times and just rushing to 99 like most everyone else then skilling up quickly once you get there. Those changes to crafting would be a massive undertaking for a dev team of this size to tackle right now as it's a huge balancing act and adding NPCs that craft for us would just come across as an admission that both the server populations and the crafting system aren't working out. You're better off finding ways into making crafting itself more appealing to the masses.