This isnt any surprise to me.

SE has pretty much tuned crafting (and lots of other content) to be suitable only for the richest players in the game.

I've been an endgame crafter in every MMO I've played until this one..... SE really ruined crafting for me in FFXIV.

I'll finish getting BSM and ARM to 50 since I'm almost there now, but once I do, I'm done with crafting in this game.... forever.