Fall back and regroup: time for crafting autoleveller?

[twinkles]

I'm pretty torn on this one. Crafting (grind crafting) is truly the most mind numbing activity in game(followed closely by static/fail leves). At the 45+ ranks it takes hours on top of hours of just spamming that damn enter key to the point that i feel like a bot doing it. I remember with a lot of dread that final rank of GSM i did it in one sitting and my Misses to this day won't let me live it down (she doesn't play ff14 and always laughs at me when i grind craft). 8 hours straight pretty much of make silver franys, i literally felt a part of me died, however the relief and elation/joy of dinging 50 was pretty awesome.

So i'm torn about automating crafting (at least grind crafting) , i am for it ( i think?) although it would certainly defeat the sense of accomplishment a player feels dinging a craft. I certainly think a solution to crafting needs to come , perhaps allowing auto crafting up to a certain rank(not up to 50), or perhaps eliminating the chance to HQ while auto crafting, perhaps improving high rank leves for crafting to award BIG SP ( eliminating the need to make 8hrs worth of some lame item).