Even if they removed red scrip caps, crafting would still be dead.

[Katchoo]

Good luck selling those i180's to battle classes. I'm sure they'll totally pay you gil proportionate to the amount of effort you spent to produce red scrip materials and aetherborne sands.

This. So much. Just think about the total worth of items you will trade in to get Red Scripts. All that worth just so you can GEAR ONE, YES ONE job.