I think what Grekumah is saying is that the current way that the individual items are programmed makes it impossible (or at least really difficult) to simply add an ability to break it down.

But I agree with everyone here. It really makes no sense that we have such a massive amount of recipes needing shard and few options to obtain a decent amount.

Would perhaps make them untradable and unsellable but far easier to gather help put a balance into it?