Well I think something to keep in mind is that this gear is suppose to hold us over til 3.2 potentially, they aren't going to add higher tier in 3.1 and odds are what this gear will be good for will come during 3.1, so no we are in a preparation phase where the payoff won't be visible til 3.1. Yes sadly this means we are relying on blind faith atm in hopes that 3.1 will provide new recipes that will make the most out of this top tier gear since again yes at this point in time we are pretty much crafters working off on other crafters and gatherers, we don't have a very strong synergy with DOW/DOM nor do we have synergy in any other aspects such as unique furnitures, vanity gear or anything in high numbers.
What they could of done to prevent this outroar and fear from the community would of been to implement more higher end recipes into the game that we would want to look forward to, since there isn't much to look forward to the mentality kinda plays off, meh I'll gather the scrips but quite honestly what's the point of investing in the gear atm when there is nothing to look forward to once you are fully geared up. Cause ya from the Carpenter side, whoopie a piece of furniture from savage mode content that probably only comes off from the final boss, there's going to be a buttload of opportunity to make those /sarcasm.
Basically if I was SE I would of made sure I followed the following bullet points for Recipes:
-Crafted gear for DOW/DOM
-Some "high tier" that can be made with a mix of low and high end craft gear
-A lot more "end game" recipes that you need high end gear to craft and people could look at and go OH sweet I can't wait to reach that.(This part doesn't exist atm)
