I'm all for working towards a goal but lets be honest even if they completly took out the elexandrite part of the quest it would still be more work then anything else in the game, and as for the game being hard i dont really see what was ever really that hard in the first place unless you consider having to kill things for drops 100 times before you see one item hard and that seems to be the route they are choosing to go down with voidwatch.