The reasons being made for adding an auto-crafting system are more convincingly used when arguing to improve the crafting system itself.

The time spent on encoding an auto-crafting feature and all the calibrations/controls/conditions involved would be better spent on improving the crafting system itself. Which is exactly what I believe Squeenix will be doing!

And yes, the trip to rank 50 is a massive grind. THAT IS THE POINT! To dissuade people from feeling obliged to max everything out and have nowhere left to go. If you're complaining this game is too boring at later levels, you're probably over-playing it too.