I'm glad they are making crafting easier. When this happens, I'll feel like I can actually make cool stuff, whereas now, I don't ever have the motivation to craft anything because there's a billion steps to take just to make one simple thing. I mean, I know they wanted to make it realistic and everything, but if you want realism in making a piece of clothing in the game, then just go make a real piece of clothing irl! Being able to make cool gear makes you feel powerful (in that sense), just like being able to kill all kinds of monsters makes you feel powerful. Crafting finished equipment and weapons makes you feel very accomplished, and dumbing it down for us players will make more people motivated to actually sit down and craft stuff (myself included).

Right now, I only make earrings and stuff because it takes 20 damn steps just to make a weapon for myself! And also having to go through every single crafting class just to make the different materials needed. That shouldn't be necessary in a game, it just makes me feel hopeless and give up crafting altogether.