If SE adds some auto-leveler to crafting or any other part of the game, it will be like saying, we just wasted 2 years coming up with this idea, to kill it. SE needs to tackle the real issue here, and that is...

1) Items are in too much abundance (thus making crafting too easy to rank up, especially for botters)
2) Crafting system requires no brain at all (spamming standard works better than using skills)
3) Shards/Crystals are craftable (this is fed by bots that farm fish all day)

The real solution here is to...

1) reduce drop rates of common grinding items
2) either increase shards required per synth or remove the fish desynths to make shards
3) Increase the difficulty of the sythesis process (making is VERY hard to bot)
4) Bot Task Force actually doing something

If what peregrin wants happens, you might as well be throwing away all the work you did with creating these crafting classes and the whole crafting system. This will be a huge step backwards in my opinion, What would be the value in having a maxed craft when there is no point in crafting? You will have 100's of every item available, people trying to sell for 1 gil over NPC rate, the mats you farm will NPC for more than the finished item does. Why waste shards, why craft at all? You will be heading down the path of destruction quicker. This wont fix the economy. This will only make the people who dislike crafting able to craft, but what about the players who might not like battle as much as gathering or crafting? You are going to kill off some of your playerbase, and soon noone will care.

I played WoW just like tons of others, and auto crafting was the worst idea ever, took no challenge, no skill, no patience, nothing, just press a few buttons and done. If you make the materials harder to get, this increases their prices, which makes boting by buying materials a little harder to do.

Peregrine, quit being lazy, play the game as created and quit trying to ruin what fun someone else has, just because you don't have fun doing that same thing. To each their own.

The biggest issue here is the lack of support to ban or stop botters.