Many of my FC mates can HQ 100% every single recipe in the game, might as well get rid of NQ and HQ since the crafting game is just a time sink, many gear pieces on the market boards are just filled with HQ and barely any NQ.

Also, at this point almost all of the gathering materials are worth less than 50g each, only the philosophy mats are worth something, this is also the reason why it's barely possible to make money in the game anymore, the only option left is materias, and the reason is because they have RNG, were not for that, there would be absolutely no way to make money.

I didn't like XI's crafting because doing HQ crafts of high tier recipes was pure RNG, but giving players the option to have a 100% guarantee of HQ on any recipe is just as bad, if not worse, because gil right now is pretty much useless besides getting your gear repaired.