Why punish players who just want to play DoL DoH?

[LunaHoshino]

Square made their bed when they decided to make crafting such a big deal in this game. It's only natural to expect those crafters to now feel bait-and-switched.

Crafting has always been treated as a secondary pursuit in ARR. It has always been gated behind story and combat (need to be lvl 10 to even unlock DoH/DoL classes, need to progress the story to get airship access and a mount for travel to get to nodes, need to rank up in your GC to access GC turn-ins) and it has never received as much promotional attention as the combat classes.

I don't know how people could come into this game expecting it to be as much of a big deal as the battle classes when it has always been portrayed as a fun bonus by SE themselves.