o.O Overkill on the crafting Dumb down?

[MariyaShidou]

Yup.

Those will be quite important for making HQ materials. By the time you gather your HQ ingredients for your final synth, you have essentially put in all the necessary effort, thus the final synth will just be about completion.

They're making HQ mats much more difficult to obtain, but making it so crafting an HQ final item is easy once that condition is met. It's relocating difficulty.

However, only "some ingredients" will be made by crafters, and they haven't made it clear what's the processed involved in making these ingredients HQ, or if the process involves yet again HQ material.