Not going to craft at all. No way am I crafting items for 2-3m loss per synth and spending millions to level a craft up.

Crafting is pretty much dead for anyone who hasn't been 100 for 15 years or isn't hoarding billions of gil. They also control the entire market and make it not profitable to craft anything that isn't an HQ.

By the way, all the SU3 gear requires 2-4m of NPC only materials that were LITERALLY set by the dev team

The devs also decided to make the items require vagary drops(content very few like, content people don't do often) for absolutely no reason when enough good items already require vagary mats.

So, yeah, the developers did set the price for these items. They literally said "this is worth 2-4m in npc mats" then "We're going to make this cost vagary mats which already cost millions" on top of the FIXED npc price costs.