As someone who has levelled all crafts and has both miner and botanist at 50 and a level 40+ fisher, I'm utterly dismayed by SE's treatment of crafters and gatherers. Truth be told, they don't seem to care much for them.

Gatherers and crafters both now have useless 'grind' mechanics to get their top-tier tools. I say useless because the items crafted are made for the sole purpose of obtaining these tools, and serve no other function. Fragrant logs cannot be made into lumber, Umbral Ore cannot be made into ingots or gems and Silver Brocade has less purpose than hempen yarn. Worse, anything less than a high quality version of the aforementioned items can't even be used for the tools!

Compare and contrast to, say, a raid where you're guaranteed to get a full item drop you can lot on and high-tier crafted gear has actually become harder to obtain than high allagan! I'd even go as far to say that the Zodiac weapon atma grind is more rewarding than the crafting grind.

Only the truly die-hard have honed their crafts to the point of 3-star excellence, while the rest of us scrape up gil to pay the exorbitant costs associated with this new grind. It's stupid, it's boring, it's not even well thought out. It's grind for the sake of grind, and I know from experience that Yoshi can do better than that.