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Just an idea..
Have /itemsearch display all the materials you have for any crafted item you search, and not just the finished item itself.
The ideal solution to finding crafting materials in your inventory would be to allow crafting from all inventory, then you'd just open the craft log to see what you have, and collect what you don't. If everything is present, then just start crafting, without having to find and move everything to your bags first.
I would hold out for additional feedback until after patch 5.1. There are huge changes coming to crafting and gathering. They have already said they are improving the menus. They are expanding it to where you can see all of the raw materials needed to craft an item without having to right click to search each material. This doesn't fix the inventory issues, but its a step in the right direction. That blasted 1.0 spaghetti coding leftover is still haunting the devs to this day.