o.O Overkill on the crafting Dumb down?

[Sorel]

Exactly this. And this is what is going to happen for certain crafts with part recipes removed from the game.

Is maintaining the current status quo for grind-crafting really SO important that recipes must remain of such complexity that it literally takes two-and-a-half hours to craft 4 [item=4040101]Bronze Labrys[/item]??

Is maintaining the the current status quo SO important that grind-crafters should remain disconnected from the Eorzean economy and continue to make items that can only be sold to NPC vendors??